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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Rename folder/directory after running sort script Post 302412863 by jl487 on Tuesday 13th of April 2010 07:33:40 PM
Old 04-13-2010
Rename folder/directory after running sort script
Hello, I'm trying to create a script that sorts documents by author (found in file name) and then create a directory for that author. For example,

Input:
John - Paper_1.txt
John - Paper_2.txt
Mark - Paper_1.txt
Jill - Paper_1.txt

Output:
dir/John/Paper_1.txt
dir/John/Paper_2.txt
dir/Mark/Paper_1.txt
dir/Jill/Paper_1.txt


I have the following code, but the directories are named very strangely (possibly because of the sort feature I used).

HTML Code:
for file in *.txt
do
  dir=`find *txt | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort -u`
  mkdir -p "$dir"
  mv "$file" "$dir"
done
Right now, the code creates directories with the following names:
dir/John Mark Jill/Paper_1.txt
dir/John Mark Jill/Paper_2.txt
dir/Mark Jill/Paper_1.txt
dir/Jill/Paper_1.txt

Can anyone help?

---------- Post updated at 07:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:02 PM ----------

As another route, I know that I can create the directories first, by using
Code:
 mkdir $(ls *txt | cut -d - -f1 | sort -u)

but then the issue of sorting the files arises.

Any suggestions?
Last edited by jl487; 04-13-2010 at 10:37 PM..
 

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ecaccess-file-move

ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    ECACCESS-FILE-MOVE(1p)

NAME

       ecaccess-file-move - Move or Rename ECaccess Files

SYNOPSIS

       ecaccess-file-move -version|-help|-manual

       ecaccess-file-move [-debug] source-ecaccess-file target-ecaccess-file

DESCRIPTION

       Allow moving an ECaccess File. When the move occurs within the same ECaccess File System then it is a rename. When the move occurs across
       two different ECaccess File Systems then first a copy is done and then a delete of the original file is done (e.g. similar to ecaccess-
       file-copy ... -erase).

       The source-ecaccess-file and target-ecaccess-file are in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File
       Management" section of the "ecaccess" guide for more information on the ECaccess File System.

ARGUMENTS

       source-ecaccess-file
	       The source ECaccess File name.

       target-ecaccess-file
	       The target ECaccess File name.

OPTIONS

       -version
	       Display version number and exits.

       -help   Print a brief help message and exits.

       -manual Prints the manual page and exits.

       -debug  Display the SOAP messages exchanged.

EXAMPLES

       ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt ec:test2.txt

       Rename the test1.txt file in the ECFS directory of the authenticated user in test2.txt.

       ecaccess-file-move ec:test1.txt home:test2.txt

       Copy the test1.txt file from the ECFS directory of the authenticated user to the test2.txt file in the $HOME directory of the authenticated
       user, then delete the test1.txt file from ECFS.

SEE ALSO

       ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file-
       copy, ecaccess-file-dir, ecaccess-file-mdelete, ecaccess-file-mkdir, ecaccess-file-chmod, ecaccess-file-put, ecaccess-file-size and
       ecaccess.

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