Redirect help – Merging old sites into one new domain

Hi there

I’m struggling to get my head round the .htaccess redirects needed to merge multiple old wordpress sites to one new one.

Here’s an idea of what I’m trying to do:

Redirect the homepage of oldsite1.com to newsite.com/oldsite1 and oldsite2.com to newsite.com/oldsite2 etc.
Redirect all posts, categories, tags etc from all the old domains to the new domain preserving the existing permalink structure, e.g. oldsite1.com/2012/06/20/post to newsite.com/2012/06/20/post.

Does that make sense and is it possible?

Thanks

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