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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to arrange files into several folders Post 302399871 by kizofilax on Monday 1st of March 2010 10:01:07 PM
Old 03-01-2010
Shell script to arrange files into several folders
Hello this is the script Im working on

I have a picture collection that I rescued from a hard drive and there are thousands of pictures saved in one folder. What I need is to create several folders and put lets say around 200 pictures in each folder.

At the end instead of having one huge folder with pictures I will end with many folders with pictures in them

SO far this is what I have been able to get

Code:
dirx=JPG
cd "$dirx"

for (( i=1; i<=60; i++))
do
  mkdir $i

done

So this creates the folders in the directory, now what I am not sure how to do is to grab 200 pictures of the folder (*.jpg) and put them in each of the folders. I guess it will be with one for loop within the for loop I have but I dont know how to get an individual .jpg file

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-02-2010 at 03:27 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!
 

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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE

new

NEW(1)                                                               [nmh-1.5]                                                              NEW(1)

NAME

       new - report on folders with new messages

       fnext - set current folder to next folder with new messages

       fprev - set current folder to previous folder with new messages

       unseen - scan new messages in all folders with new messages

SYNOPSIS

       new [sequences] [-mode mode] [-folders foldersfile] [-version] [-help]

       fnext is equivalent to new -mode fnext

       fprev is equivalent to new -mode fprev

       unseen is equivalent to new -mode unseen

DESCRIPTION

       New  in  its  default  mode  produces  a  one-line-per-folder  listing of all folders containing messages in the listed sequences or in the
       sequences listed in the profile entry "Unseen-Sequence".  Each line contains the folder, the number of messages in the  desired  sequences,
       and the message lists from the .mh_sequences file.  For example:

            foo     11.* 40-50
            bar    380.  760-772 824-828
             total    391.

       The `*' on foo indicates that it is the current folder.  The last line shows the total number of messages in the desired sequences.

       New crawls the folder hierarchy recursively to find all folders, and prints them in lexicographic order.  Override this behavior by provid-
       ing foldersfile containing the pre-sorted list of folders new should check, one per line.

       In fnext and fprev modes, new instead changes to the next or previous matching folder, respectively.

       In unseen mode, new executes scan sequences for each matching folder.

FILES

       $HOME/.mh_profile          The user profile

PROFILE COMPONENTS

       Path:                To determine the user's nmh directory
       Current-Folder:      To find the default current folder
       Unseen-Sequence:     The name of the unseen message sequence

SEE ALSO

       scan(1), mh-format(5)

HISTORY

       Based on Luke Mewburn's new (http://www.mewburn.net/luke/src/new).

MH.6.8                                                             11 June 2012                                                             NEW(1)
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