Recursively moving all files of a specific type into a target directory in Bash

Question

How can I move all the .txt files from a folder and all included folders into my target directory?

I rename them to a folder they were included in, although that's are not that important. I'm not exactly familiar with bash.

Answer 1

To recursively move files, combine find with mv.

find src/dir/ -name '*.txt' -exec mv {} target/dir/ \;

To rename your files when you move them it's trickier. One way is to have the loop that passes the file name through tr / _, which converts slashes into your underscores.

find src/dir/ -name '*.txt' | while read file; do

    mv "$file" "target/dir/$(tr / _ <<< "$file")"

done

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