[plug] Recursive Copying of Folder Contents

[William Kenworthy]

something like:

"/usr/bin/find /topoftree -type f -exec cp {}  /fullpathtodestination \;"

Going from memory - check arguments to your version of find.

BillK



On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 18:14 +0800, 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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