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pepper

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Registered: 2017-12-09

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thunar xfce custom action: bash script to move content of a folder

Hello, I use a script in thunar to move the content of a folder to the parent directory and remove the folder:

find %f -maxdepth 1 -type d \( ! -name . \) -exec bash -c "mv -v '{}'/* . && rmdir '{}'" \;

the problem is that when there are folders with characters that needs an excape like apostrophes, the action is not executed, how could I fix the script to handle also these cases?

lambdarch

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Registered: 2021-01-10

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Re: thunar xfce custom action: bash script to move content of a folder

You could reverse the quotes (single <-> double), but then you'll have a problem with double quotes in the directory name.
So better to do this:

find %f -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec bash -c 'mv -v "$1"/* . && rmdir "$1"' _ {} \;

I also used -mindepth instead of filtering on directory names.

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