flatten-directory

Flatten Directory

Copies every file in a directory recursively to a target directory. Renames every file to start with a prefix of the directories walked to avoid naming collisions. Directories are relative to the cwd or current working directory.

Install

npm i -g flatten-directory

Usage without args

flatten-directory

Will use cwd as the root directory and will copy every file into a new directory flatten-directory-output

Usage with args. Every arg is optional.

flatten-directory --rootdir="downloads" --outputdir="downloadsflattened"

The rootdir will be interpreted as cwd/rootdir. In this case cwd/downloads The outputdir will be interpreted as cwd/outputdir. In this case, cwd/downloadsflattened cut will tell flatten-directory to cut/move the files rather than copying them

Example

if rootdir contains the following structure:

rootdir
    |=images
        |=animals
            |-dog.png
            |-wolf.png
    |=audio
        |=animals
            |-bark.mp3
            |-howl.mp3
        |=nature
            |-waterfall.mp3

The files in the outputdir will be the following:

outputdir
    |-images-animals-dog.png
    |-images-animals-wolf.png
    |-audio-animals-bark.mp3
    |-audio-animals-howl.mp3
    |-audio-nature-waterfall.mp3

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