Helpful File Sorting Bash Scripts

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//SYSV version: Flattening directory structures. Note that duplicates are overwritten!
find -type f -exec mv '{}' . \;

//BSD version
find . -type f -exec mv {} . \;

//To rename files with pattern and specific delimiter. e.g "-"
for i in *.avi; do echo $i > i.txt; result=`awk -F- '{print "mv "$i" somethingsomething-"$1".avi"}' i.txt`; `$result`; done

//To test, change `` to echo. TAKE NOTE OF THE EXTENSION!
for i in *.avi; do echo $i > i.txt; result=`awk -F- '{print "mv "$i" somethingsomething-"$1".avi"}' i.txt`; echo $result; done

//Removing spaces in filename
for file in *; do mv "$file" "${file//[[:space:]]}"; done

//Replace specific string in files
find . -depth -name '*<string.to.be.replaced>*' -execdir bash -c 'for f; do mv -i "$f" "${f//<string.to.be.replaced>/<newstring>}"; done' bash {} +

//prepend files
rename 's/^/<prepended.string>/' *

//search for specific file in current directory
find . -iname "*.mp4" -print

//Find and move files with space in the name
find . -name '*FoooBar*' | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | xargs cp ~/foo/bar
OR
find -type f -name "something" -exec cp -rf '{}' <target-dir> \;
find -type d -name "something" -exec cp -rf '{}' <target-dir> \;