Show the content of child folder(s) in the parent folder

John Willemsen

11/30/23, 12:03 PM

I have a parent folder. This parent folder contains no files; only child folders. All of those child folders only contain files; no further child folders.

I'm looking for a way to show the contents (files) of all the child folders in the parent folder.

For my purpose, I just need to see all the files from all the child folders; it is of no consequence if the child folders themselves remain visible in the parent folder.

This is my own system, btw.

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Chokoladekiks

11/30/23, 12:09 PM

Is termianal view sufficient, or does it need to be in a GUI File manager?

John Willemsen

12/1/23, 2:11 PM

Shared over Samba/NFS/CIFS.

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vanadium

12/1/23, 8:26 AM

You can make files exist in the parent folder as well by creating soft or hard links to them. The following command can automatically create hard links in the parent directory:

find /path/to/parent/dir/* -type f -exec ln {} /path/to/parent/dir ;

Add the option -s after the ln command to create symbolic links instead.

Files with the same names in different child folders obviously will be overwritten in the parent folder.

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John Willemsen

12/1/23, 2:17 PM

I could exclude existing files to have it run faster and prevent overwriting existing files every time the command is executed, but an exclusion list that's read before the actual command is executed would be even better, no?

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