Good morning.

I am trying to write a script on SunOS that will tar up files from a set of directories. This is no problem, but what I need to do is to create 3 different archives each containing a third of the files from a particular sub-directory.

So if I have a directory structure:

masterdir

-0
--dir
---dir
----0
----1
----2
----3

-1
--dir
---dir
----0
----1
----2
----3

-2
--dir
---dir
----0
----1
----2
----3

So I have a directory with 10 subdirectories labeled 0-9 and in each one a series of subdirectories labeled 0-1000 containing a series of files.

I need to create archives with identical directory structures and each one containing approximately 1/3 of the files from each leaf directory.

Any suggestions on the best way to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance