[plug] Recursive Copying of Folder Contents

[Adrian Chadd]

Split the task up and write some simple shell scripts.

Part 1 - find /path/to/directory -type f > files.txt
Part 2 - write a shell script to read in a list of files on stdin and
  run "cp" on it, eg

#!/bin/sh

DESTDIR=$1

while read R; do
	cp -v ${R} ${DESTDIR}/
end




Adrian

In-Reply-To: <4A264D1F.6050608 at iinet.net.au>

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, 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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