i have a lot of files 30k directories, 21k files
inside direrctories and subdirerctories of txt
files with the same name
├── cases__in_africa │ ├── 2020/10/01.txt │ ├── 2020/10/02.txt │ ├── 2020/10/03.txt │ └── 2020/10/04.txt ├── death_in_africa │ ├── 2020/10/01.txt │ ├── 2020/10/02.txt │ ├── 2020/10/03.txt │ └── 2020/10/04.txt 2926 directories, 21646 files
i want to search for all files inside a lot of subdirerctories and than rename them to other unique name to move them to other directory.
This command not showing the duplicate files
find . -name "*.txt" -exec mv "{}" ./all ;
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Answer
i find this helpful https://askubuntu.com/questions/1003554/how-to-rename-all-jpg-files-in-all-subdirs-wich-contains-dash-in-linux
find -name '*.txt' -exec bash -c 'mv "{}" "$RANDOM.txt"' ;