dm9876

dm9876 / copy-flatten-unique.sh

Created April 24, 2017 10:54

bash script: copies files from all directories and subdirectories of the source, to single directory of the destination

	#copy-flatten-unique.sh
	#copies files from all directories and subdirectories of the source, to single directory of the destination
	#ie flattens the directory structure
	#ensures only files with unique content in the destination, will rename the file if names clash
	#original application was to collect and review all attachements from an old gnu mailman (www.gnu.org/software/mailman) mailing list.

	Source=.
	Dest=~/Documents/dest

	if [ ! -d "$Dest" ]; then #create the destination directory if it does not exist