Moving files from multiple folders

I have just used Techtool Pro 5 to restore animation data files from an unmountable external drive. Every individual frame of a sequence has been put into a seperate folder by Techtool.
Can I use Automator (or another app) to move each file into one folder.
There are 5500 folders, so this might take a while manually.

But unix commands rsync or ditto can do exactly that with a lot more options ???
So a better question would be "How to use the unix commands rsync or ditto to do *your question*" in the [apple unix forum|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735]
--Am no expert in Unix or Applescript.--
--Not too long ago I had the same 'bottleneck' issue with an applescript - activity monitor showing full cpu usage for one of my applescripts.--
--Then tried to solve the same problem with unix and ruby. Results were stunning.--
Still I am not complaining about applescript..
--It helped me learn the limits of Applescript--
--Hence I tend to use Applescript only for GUI scripting these days - its awesome there,--
--for text processing and file processing - use a combination of bash and ruby--

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marcr56
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