[plug] Recursive Copying of Folder Contents

[Lucas van Staden]

Hi

rsync might be a better tool to achieve this....not 100% sure, but give 
it a try, it has many options.

-Lucas

Jason Posavec wrote:
> The Subject header pretty much sums it up. I want to recursively copy 
> the contents only of nest folders to a specified destination.
>
> Basically, I have all my music managed by Rhythmbox in folders nested 
> as Music/Artist/Album/Tracks. I want to copy all the music files to a 
> common folder. SoundConverter allows me to load my Music folder 
> recursively, and convert all the files to a common folder, but will 
> only do this via a conversion, not a straight copy.
>
> I tried the copy command:
>
> cp -r --copy-contents ~/Music/* destination_folder
>
> but that insisted on copying folders as well. Obviously 
> --copy-contents doesn't do what I think it does.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jason Posavec
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