I have a folder which is named Music. This folder contains the three subfolders Jazz, Rock and Folk. Now each of these three subfolders contains various .mp3 files. Now I want to copy the .mp3 files from all three subfolders into one folder with one command run.
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You can use the -r flag from rsync:
rsync -r /path/to/Music/*/*.mp3 /path/to/destination
This matches every mp3 file in any subdirectory of Music, if you want it to just match a list of subdirectories, use bash Brace Expansion:
rsync -r /path/to/Music/{Jazz,Rock,Folk}/*.mp3 /path/to/destination
You could even use --exclude option to exclude sub-directories and directories structures.
rsync -rv --exclude='*/' /path/in/source/dir*/ /path/to/destination/
Or with sub-directories:
rsync -rv --exclude='*/*' /path/in/source/dir*/ /path/to/destination/
You could also use scp command as well
scp -r /path/to/Music/*/*.mp3 /path/to/destination
This was already answered in a different question here: copying files from many directories to one using rsync
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Just tried your first solution (right now) and that does not work. The point is that I do not want to run a rsync for each and every subdirectory but only one rsync for the directory that contains the subdirectories.– GuebertJul 31, 2019 at 9:28
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So let’s say I have a folder which is named Music. This folder contains the three subfolders Jazz, Rock and Folk. Now each of these three subfolders contains various .mp3 files. Now I want to copy the .mp3 files from all three subfolders into one folder with one command run. I tried your solutions but they copy only a single .mp3 file that is in Music folder and none of the files that are in the three subfolders.– GuebertJul 31, 2019 at 9:53
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1@dessert Sorry my 2nd comment overlaped with your comment. Edited my question.– GuebertJul 31, 2019 at 10:04
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2@dessert: Exactly I guess this is what Tomáš meant but I misinterpreted his notation of the path. Anyway thanks for your help.– GuebertJul 31, 2019 at 10:20