Copy files recursively to one single directory

ReneVL · January 30, 2018, 7:29am

I need to copy a complete directory structure into a new location. But I want to have all files copied into one directory and leave out the directory structure. So all files must be placed in one directory.

disedorgue · January 30, 2018, 7:56am

Hi,
What are you do files with same name ?
what are you do hard link and/or soft link ?

Regards.

balajesuri · January 30, 2018, 9:00am

find /path/to/parent/dir -type f -exec cp {} /path/to/new/dir \;

ReneVL · January 30, 2018, 2:28pm

Thanks, it's working as expected.

abdulbadii · February 10, 2018, 6:20am

find /path/of/source -type f  -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp -bp $i {}  /path/of/newdir/

ensuring not missing duplicate file names and special character in them