Find all the files and copy them to a folder (align recursively)

Question

Basically, I have a very large file system containing media. It has a ton of silly subfolders. I would like to find all files (any file) and copy them to a directory. What is the best / easiest way to do this?

Suppose the media directory is in / home / user / media and the location of the destination directory is / home / user / flatmedia

I would like to do this using standard mac tools.

Answer 1

find /home/user/media -type f -exec cp {} /home/user/flatmedia \;

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