Unnest directories that have same name

Question

I have too many files being in directories with same name EXAMPLE:

~/foo/bar/foo/bar/1.flac
~/foo/bar/foo/bar/bar/foo/foo/0.flac

I want to have

~/foo/bar/0.flac
~/foo/bar/1.flac

The question is really ambiguous, do you want ~/foo/bar/FILE all the time? How should the script know when to move files or when to leave them alone? You aren't helping people answer your question, you're saying "do this for me". — alexmherrmann, Sep 11 '14 at 18:05
@alexhairyman yes.The script should know to move FILE up to /foo/bar whatever foo and bar is. — user83873, Sep 11 '14 at 18:46
@user83873, I have voted to close it as duplicate of this question. Check that question and I tried Gille's solution with zsh. I believe it is exactly what you are looking for. — Ramesh, Sep 11 '14 at 21:18

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 11 '14 at 20:45

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As long as all the files have different names you can do:

cd ~/foo/bar
find foo -type f -name "*.flac" -exec mv -t . {} \;

(you can leave out the -name "*.flac" part).

answered Sep 11 '14 at 20:45

Anthon

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