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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting archiving equal sets of files from directories Post 302182444 by 1world1love on Sunday 6th of April 2008 12:32:33 PM
Old 04-06-2008
archiving equal sets of files from directories
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
 

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gather

GATHER(1)						      General Commands Manual							 GATHER(1)

NAME

       gather - gather up the files in a directory for transmission

SYNOPSIS

       gather [-s] source_dir [-d] dest_dir [-b] bytes [-f] file

OPTIONS

       -b     Desired number of bytes per output file

       -d     Destination directory

       -f     Base name of output files

       -s     Source directory

EXAMPLES

       gather		   # Collect files in current dir into 60K archives

       gather -d dir	   # Put the archives in dir

       gather -b 90000	   # Try to produce 90K archives

       gather -s .. -d targ -b 5000
			   # Try to produce 5K archives

DESCRIPTION

       It  is  often useful to collect all the files in a directory into one or more archives for transmission by mail.  This program collects all
       the files in the source directory (default: current directory) and puts them into a shar archive.  The shar archive is then compressed  and
       uuencoded.   An	attempt is made to have the final .uue file be about the given size (default: 60K), but since gather cannot really predict
       how much shar will add to the file, how much compress will reduce the file, and how much uue will add again, the sizes can  fluctuate.	If
       the  -f	file flag is given, the archives will be given the names file_00.uue, file_01.uue etc.	If -f is not given, the name of the source
       directory is used as the base name.  Since 7 characters of suffix are appended, the base name should not exceed 7 characters.

																	 GATHER(1)
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