Assuming I have
dir 1/dir 2/file 1
dir 3/dir 4/file 2
(spaces in directory and file names are intentional)
I want to end up with
dir 1/file 1
dir 3/file 2
This answer moves all the files into the current parent directory (instead of each file's parent directory)
find . -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} .. \;
This answer prints out each parent directory but I'm not sure how to do the moving.
find . -name '.user.log' | xargs -I{} dirname {}
find -type f -execdir mv "{}" ../ \;
The -execdir is like -exec but does its job in a directory where the particular file is, so the ../ part works as you need.
To get rid of empty dir2 and dir4 in your example you need another specialized command, but the main task is done.
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