Recursive Copy?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 2006-08-12 at 04:07 +0000, Steve Jardine wrote:
> Okie all,
> 
>     Here's the sceneraio:
> 
> 
>     I have a directory tree:
> 
> 	A-
> 	  |->B
> 	  |->C
>           -->D-
>                ->E
> 
> 
>    In this directory tree I have possibly several same named files in different directories. What I want to do is to
> recursively copy all the files in the directory tree to a single directory, say directory F. In that directory I would like duplicate files names to have prepended differences.
> 
>     Example:
> 
>         A/B/t.txt
>         A/C/t.txt
>         A/D/E/t.txt
> 
>     all being copied into the directory F looking like:
> 
>        F/t1.txt
>        F/t2.txt
>        F/t3.txt
> 
>     Any ideas?
> 
> 
>     Thanks all for your responses - and further ideas...

Perhaps something with cpio in pass-thru mode? There are options for
making or not making directories.

> 
> 
> 	Steve
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