Changing File Structure

Question

A lot of times when I'm unzipping files, I'll get a messed up directory structure that looks like /home/bob/myfolder/myfolder/otherstuff. Where the only thing that the first myfolder contains is another directory named myfolder.

How could I collapse this path to get /home/bob/myfolder/otherstuff? I.e. I want to remove the useless in-between link.

Answer 1

Using your example, open a terminal and do:

cd /home/bob
mv myfolder myfolder1
mv myfolder1/myfolder .
rm myfolder1

Or just cut/paste in a file browser.