for i in {2..6}; do mv disc$i/* disc1; rm -rf disc$i; done - Need help making this work

Nathaniel Homier ubuntu-users at universal-mechanism.org
Sun Jul 15 04:18:52 UTC 2012


for i in {2..6}; do mv disc$i/* disc1; rm -rf disc$i; done

This gives error of > @saturn:~/cng$ for i in {2..6}; do mv disc$i/*
disc1; rm -rf disc$i; done
> mv: cannot move `disc2/images' to `disc1/images': File exists
> mv: cannot move `disc3/images' to `disc1/images': File exists
> mv: cannot move `disc4/images' to `disc1/images': File exists
> mv: cannot move `disc5/images' to `disc1/images': File exists
> mv: cannot move `disc6/images' to `disc1/images': File exists

What I'm trying to do is merge 6 dir's into 1.  The dir structure is -
disc1/images/

The top level dir are the same it's the files that are unique.  I want
to put the files in the same dir, disc 1, disc1/images/

for i in {2..6}; do mv disc$i/* disc1;

Thanks Nate.




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