Navigate directory and move files one level up, recursively [duplicate]

I have many directory with different name, each of them contain a subdirectory named httpd-ack (same name for all of them) in which are stored files.

I need a command to recursively enter each directory, enter subdir httpd-ack, move all files one level up and then delete the httpd-ack folder (which is empty now).

start is

name1/httpd-ack/(files)

name2/httpd-ack/(files)

name3/...[...]

ending should be

name1/(files)

name2/(files)

name3....[...]

Any help will be much appreciated....

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2 Answers

Thanks to @Jos, this worked for me:

1. Create a file named movefiles.sh (and set it executable) with the following code:

   #!/bin/bash
   path=$1
   echo "Now processing $path"
   cd "$path"
   if [ -d "./httpd-ack" ]; then cd httpd-ack mv * ../ cd .. rmdir httpd-ack fi

2. Invoke find as follows:

   find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec ./movefiles.sh {} \;

It worked like a charm... (I didn't try @bac0n solution.)

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This script should be a good start:

#!/bin/bash
moveFiles () { path=$1 echo "Now processing $path" cd "$path" if [ -d "./httpd-ack" ]; then cd httpd-ack mv * ../ cd .. rmdir httpd-ack fi
}
find top/level/dir -type d -exec moveFiles {} \;

First, it defines a function moveFiles that moves into the httpd-ack directory (if one is present) and moves all files upwards, then cds up and deletes the now empty httpd-ack.

Then it finds all directories, starting from /top/level/dir, and calls the newly defined function on each of them.

I'm sure this could be improved. Editors, feel free.

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