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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to move files to 3 different folders Post 302334039 by wretchedmike on Tuesday 14th of July 2009 02:52:32 PM
Old 07-14-2009
Shell script to move files to 3 different folders
Hi guys:

I've got this problem, I want to move a bunch of files to 3 different folders, without any specific order, and I'm trying to automatize it with a shell script.
I'm a newbie at shell scripting so this is my first try:

Code:
#!/bin/bash

COUNTER=`ls -1 | wc -l`

while [ "$COUNTER" != "0" ]
do
    ARRAY=( $(ls | head -n 3) ) 
    mv ${ARRAY[0]} folder1/
    mv ${ARRAY[1]} folder2/
    mv ${ARRAY[2]} folder3/
done

But I can't make it work. When executed it moves half of the files to folder1, the other half to folder2 and deletes folder3 (?). It also creates a folder called folder1 inside folder1, but it doesn't do that with folder2.
As you can see, I'm trying to do this by reading the first 3 files inside the folder where the script is executed and then putting them inside an array to make the 3 mv statements. I'm sure it's all messed up.
I'll really appreciate your help with this one.
 

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test::data::array

Array(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						Array(3pm)

NAME

       Test::Data::Array -- test functions for array variables

SYNOPSIS

       use Test::Data qw(Array);

DESCRIPTION

   Functions
       array_any_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if any element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_none_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if no element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_once_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if only one element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_multiple_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if more than one element of ARRAY is ITEM.

       array_max_ok( NUMBER, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are numerically less than or equal to NUMBER.

       array_min_ok( NUMBER, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are numerically greater than or equal to NUMBER.

       array_maxstr_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are asciibetically less than or equal to MAX.

       array_minstr_ok( ITEM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if all elements of ARRAY are asciibetically greater than or equal to MAX.

       array_sum_ok( SUM, ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if the numerical sum of ARRAY is SUM.

       array_empty_ok( ARRAY [, NAME] )
	   Ok if the array contains no elements.

       array_length_ok( ARRAY, LENGTH [, NAME] )
	   Ok if the array contains LENGTH number of elements.

       array_sortedstr_ascending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is asciibetically greater than or equal to the one before.

       array_sortedstr_descending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is asciibetically less than or equal to the one before.

       array_sorted_ascending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is numerically greater than or equal to the one before.

       array_sorted_descending_ok( ARRAY, [, NAME] )
	   Ok if each succeeding element is numerically less than or equal to the one before.

SEE ALSO

       Test::Data, Test::Data::Scalar, Test::Data::Function, Test::Data::Hash, Test::Builder

SOURCE AVAILABILITY

       This source is in Github:

	       http://github.com/briandfoy/test-data/tree/master

AUTHOR

       brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2002-2009 brian d foy.  All rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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