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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with command to Move files by X number to seperate directories Post 302407381 by jgt on Thursday 25th of March 2010 09:16:53 AM
Old 03-25-2010
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cd dirA
ls >../list
x=1
y=1
mkdir ../dir$y
while read file
do
   mv $file ../dir$y
   x=`expr $x + 1` 
   if [ $x -gt 10000 ]
   then
       x=1
       y=`expr $y + 1`
       mkdir ../dir$y
   fi
done < ../list



---------- Post updated at 09:16 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:07 AM ----------

Bakunin,
No fair, I saw it first, but had to go answer the phone.

Interesting that we both had the same solution, but totally different coding style.

Jack
Last edited by jgt; 03-25-2010 at 10:12 AM.. Reason: changed location of list file
 

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