Stripping folders from files?

[toys19]

Hi I have 70 folders as an output form some software they are called folder1, folder2 ...folder70.

I want to find a way to automatically copy the contents from each folder to one big folder? So all the files are in one folder without the directories?

I was thinking of something using the mv command but I'm not sure how to do this..

---------- Post added at 02:18 AM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 01:45 AM GMT ----------

Ok I think I have answered my own question. I did this:

# cp folder*/* bigfolder

I used cp in case it went wrong, it worked so I deleted the previous dir's.

[jpollard]

As a comment, using "cp folder*/* bigfolder" ASSUMES that the names
in each directory are unique. If they are not, then only the last file with
the same name will exist in "bigfolder".

This also applies to using "mv" instead. In this case though, the
pre-existing files in "bigfolder" are deleted.

[toys19]

Good point thanks.