Name directories with "0s"

raya · #1 10-11-2012

Hi everyone,

I want to create 4000 directories with names like dir0001 ... dir 0100 till dir4000 and move 100 files in each.

I am using this :

Code:

ls|xargs -n100|awk ' {i++;system("mkdir dir"i);system("mv "$0" -t dir"i)}'

pamu · #2 10-11-2012

try something like this..

Code:

  for i in {1..1000}
 do
 dir_name=$(printf "%04d" "$i")
 mkdir "$dir_name"
 mv files "$dir_name"
 done

elixir_sinari · #3 10-11-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by pamu

try something like this..

Code:

 for i in {1..1000}
 do
 dir_name=$(echo $i | awk '{ printf "%04d",$0}{print ""}')
 mkdir "$dir_name"
 mv files "$dir_name"
 done

You forget that there is an external command/shell built-in called printf , too.
So, that's a useless use of awk .

pamu · #4 10-11-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by elixir_sinari

You forget that there is an external command/shell built-in called printf , too.
So, that's a useless use of awk .

Yeah. Thanks...
edited in original post.

This might be the first time useless use of awk ...

raya · #5 10-11-2012

Thanks for all replies !!

itkamaraj · #6 10-12-2012

Quote:

Originally Posted by pamu

try something like this..

Code:

  for i in {1..1000}
 do
 dir_name=$(printf "%04d" "$i")
 mkdir "$dir_name"
 mv files "$dir_name"
 done

Need to add dir in the printf

Code:

 
printf "dir%04d" "$i"

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