Hi Terry,
> Been away doing my exercises :-)
Bit early for pintlifting?
> Obviously I was wrong.
I think so. Assuming there are no linefeeds in the filenames, this will
show a count of duplicate filenames.
find -type f -printf '%f\n' | sort | uniq -dc
> I'd like to overwrite them and carry on.
Removing the -i from mv will remove the interactive prompt.
mv will then overwrite by default unless the destination is read-only.
Passing -f to mv will force it to overwrite a read-only destination.
Don't put the -f between the -t and its $PWD argument.
> Does this mean I can rerun the commands on the partially converted stick
> without loss?
Yes, I'd have thought so. You'll see complaints from mv about source
and destination being the same file. You could instead add a -mindepth
option to find so what follows is only applied two levels down from the
implicit ‘.’ directory argument where it starts.
find -mindepth 2 -type f -exec mv -t $PWD {} +
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