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I have a directory called music who have many albums and separate tracks. Some of them are in subdirectories. What I want is remove this folders and mix all tracks in the music directory without separations.

Will be hard do this manually, so I am looking for some bash command.

Without find

shopt -s globstar
mv -nv **/*.mp3 /path/to/common/directory

find . -mindepth 1 -type f -exec mv -i "" /common/path ;
find . -mindepth 1 -d -type d -exec rmdir "" ;

This will move all your music from the current directory to /common/path and the second one will delete all directories. Then you can move all your stuff back to the original directory.

Also, this will prompt you if you want to overwrite files with the same name.

find /path/to/music/ -type f -execdir mv -n "" /path/to/sharedmusic/ ;

Files with duplicate names will not be moved, but rather left in their original location.

You could complete a find for all the files in the sub-directories then have that find command execute move to current directory.

an example of this is found in this answer below.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22388480/how-to-pipe-the-results-of-find-to-mv-in-linux

Quoted Answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22388545/879882

xargs is commonly used for this, and mv has a -t option to facilitate that.

find ./ -name '*article*' | xargs mv -t ../backup

If your find supports -exec ... + you could equivalently do

find ./ -name '*article*' -exec mv -t ../backup +

The -t option is probably a GNU extension. It's of course possible to roll your own, maybe something like

find ./ -name '*article*' -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" "$0"' ../backup +

where we shamelessly abuse the convenient fact that the first argument after sh -c 'commands' ends up as the "script name" parameter in $0 so that we don't even need to shift it.