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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move files to Folders Post 302336703 by diva_thilak on Wednesday 22nd of July 2009 03:41:56 PM
Old 07-22-2009
Move files to Folders

Hi Friends,
Below is my requirement and i am not clear how to approach this issue in unix programming.

I have a folder with 2500 files. The files are in below format.
1234_name1.txt
1234_name123.txt
4567_name1.txt
4567_name123.txt

and i need a program which will read each file from this folder and read the first 4 bytes and move the file to the folder (if it does not exist create a new one) with the name of the file.

Example:
read 1234_name1.txt , extract 1234 and create a folder 1234. Move the file to the folder 1234.

read 1234_name123.txt, extract 1234 and now the folder exist, now simply move the file to the folder 1234.

Your views/suggestions are highly appreciated.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Regards,
Diwakar
 

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