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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Creating Directories Post 302409602 by rwuerth on Thursday 1st of April 2010 03:56:54 PM
Old 04-01-2010
Your variable subsitution removes the string "_FMV.pdf" from the end of $f and puts that into $d. However, the value of $d is then AC41_AC85_86_AC128_129_MC171_173_SF_207.

I'm surmising this is the name of the one directory that is getting created, and it moves the pdf file there, based upon your script.

You'll need to break out the values of $d in some way so that you can then create the appropriate individual directories AC41, AC85, etc. and place the file in each of them.

One caveat I see is that some of the numbers in the file name don't have the matching letter prefix to your location list. Like AC86, there is just an 86, so if you don't want a directory named simply '86' you'll need to handle this condition. Also, you don't list 'SF' or the '207' as locations and those values are still in $d after your substitution.

Assuming you've planned out your location anomalies, you can break out $d like this:

Code:
for drt in $(IFS=_;echo $d)
do
  if [ ! -d "$drt" ]; then
    mkdir "$drt"
  fi
  mv -f "$f" "$drt"
done

 

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NAME

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SEE ALSO

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