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April 2, 2013 18:54
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A very small BASH script to "explode" a directory. That is, move it's contents to it's parent directory, and remove the old (now empty) directory. Very handy after unzipping archives, and things of that nature. Be sure to add it to your PATH for easy use.
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Example usage | |
| # | |
| # $ explode dir/ | |
| find "$*" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec mv -f {} "$*/../" \; | |
| rmdir "$*" |
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