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