Anders,
On Monday 12 March 2007 08:42, Anders Norrbring wrote:
> I'm looking for shell help..
> I have a directory with thousands of files named in the format
> 'file_XX_YY.txt' where XX would represent 2 characters and/or digits
> and YY is numbers from 00 to 99.
>
> What I want to do is to move all files named 'file_XX*' to
> directories named as 'file_XX'.
Generate the list of directories:
dirNames=(
$(ls |sed -rn 's/file_(..)_[0-9][0-9].txt/file_\1/p' |sort -u )
)
Iterate over those directory names, creating the directory if necessary
and then moving all the corresponding files into that directory:
for dirName in "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; do
mkdir -p "$dirName"
for fileName in "$dirName"_[0-9][0-9].txt; do
mv "$fileName" "$dirName"
done
done
> Any suggestions for a command line or script doing just that?
> --
>
> Anders Norrbring
> Norrbring Consulting
What sort of consulting do you do?
Randall Schulz
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