How can move file without original directory structure

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Hi guys
I’d like to extract the file of the specified type on the same Google Drive, and ignoring the directory structure. Will following code like:

rclone move googledrive:20191014 googledrive:20191015 --include *.mp4

If I have this original directory structure like

20191014
│── 1
│ └── 1-A.mp4
├── 2
│ └── 2-B.mp4
├── 3
│ └── 3-C.mp4

and the final directory(20191015) structure is the same as the original directory

But I want to get the final directory structure is:

20191015
│── 1-A.mp4
├── 2-B.mp4
├── 3-C.mp4

So what's flag should I add in my code that makes the final directory structure like above?
Thanks very much!

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That will preserve the directory structure which isn't what you want. Rclone doesn't have a way of flattening the directory structure at the moment (though it has been requested in the past).

I would use rclone mount and move them around in the shell.

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@ncw
Thanks for your answer
Finally I use rclone mount into a network drive on windows10 and search *.mp4 then ctrl+x all to move them from the other directory.

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As NCW says - rclone isn't really set up to do file-organizing and sorting. It just has the tools relevant to storage.

It sounds like what you probably would want to do is mount the drive, and then find a good third-party tool that specifically is made to do large-scale reorganization of files. Then just let that act through rclone and do the job that way. While I can't suggest any particular name of such a tool I have seen many examples of them, so do a little googling and I'm sure you will find something relevant you can use.

Or at worst - a little home-scripting would solve this fairly easily, but why reinvent the wheel when there is almost certainly a proper tool for it already? :smiley:

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