[anothermacguy]

Hi all,

I have a directory, and within that subfolders (and some of these folders have subfolders within them as well). I'd like an easy way to copy the files within these folders to the parent directory (to not overright if the name already exists in the parent dir), and to delete the original subfolder the file was in (if its empty). Is there an easy way to do this?

Any help is appreciated. TIA

[Gavin]

a short shell script will do the trick.

a quick and dirty script would be something like this:

for i in `ls`; do mv $i ../$i; done

it won't do exactly what you want, it will overwrite duplicate files..., but might get you started.

to get example code google for shell scripts that use the 'find' command
search for: bash find mv

lots of people are working on similar problems so there are plenty of pointers around like this:
how to tell bash to move files to another folder? - LinuxQuestions.org

also check out this: https://gna.org/projects/ff-bash/

you might also try using Automator (in the applications folder) to script the finder