I tested the below script by creating user directories under /tmp with different types of file extensions
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
/bin/rm index.dat
set -A USER_HOME /tmp/UserA /tmp/UserB /tmp/UserC /tmp/Root /tmp/GroupA /tmp/GroupB
set -A USERS UserA UserB UserC Root GroupA GroupB
for v in ${USERS[*]} ; do
find /tmp/$v -type f | awk -F. ' (NF == 2 ){ print $2 }' | sort -ud | tee -a index.dat
done
for type in $(<index.dat); do
NewDir=/tmp/${type}-IndexedFileDir
mkdir -p $NewDir
find ${USER_HOME[*]} -type f -name "*.$type" -print | xargs -I{} -t mv {} ${NewDir}
done
Please check the above script by running it on some fake directories and let us know if this doesnot help.
Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan