从第 n 级子文件夹复制或移动到另一个目录或文件夹

Question

We have a software that adds a wav file and put it on a folder by its date which is buried under several subfolders.

For example:

home/user/music/group1/person1/todays date/wav file

home/user/music/group1/person1/yesterdays date/wav file

home/user/music/group1/person2/todays date/wav file

home/user/music/group1/person2/yesterdays date/wav file

Also, the person(n) folder is dynamic which means its created automatically if the software founds someone using that device and creates that folder. So for example, if a new user is using the software it will create home/user/music/group1/person3/ .

How do I move or copy starting from the person(n) folder and move them to a new folder like home/user/new/person1.. home/user/new/person2..

Since the person(n) folder is dynamic I could not just do command like cp person1 newdirectory What i did is find all wav files under group1 folder and cp to new folder but it copies the full path.

find /home/user/music/group1 -name "*.wav" -type f -exec cp --parents \{\} /home/user/new \;

If i remove --parents it will only copy the files to new folder. how do I copy starting from the person(n) folder to new folder?

Answer 1

thanks @RamanSailopal, i got it to work with find /home/user/music/group1/ -name "person*" -type d -exec cp -pR {}/ /home/user/new \;