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Old 06-28-2011
Sorting and moving file sequence with gaps

Hello,

I have lots of sequentially numbered files which make up an image sequence.

I'm trying to do two things with it:

#1: Find gaps in the sequence and move each range of sequencial files into their own subfolder.

#2: Designate a starting point (file) and move every 24th file into another subfolder.

The files are named like this:

AAAA_000001
AAAA_000002
... (continuous)
AAAA_120001
AAAA_120002
AAAA_125000 (sequence break)
AAAA_125001
... (continuous)
AAAA_150001
AAAA_150002
etc...

I figure the best is to put it into two scripts, but I'm can't find a good starting point for either task. I don't know how to identify the range of the sequence so I can make a list to move the files.

Any ideas?


Many thanks
 

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pnmsplit(1)                                                   General Commands Manual                                                  pnmsplit(1)

NAME
pnmsplit - split a multi-image portable anymap into multiple single-image files SYNOPSIS
pnmsplit [pnmfile[ output_file_pattern]] DESCRIPTION
Reads a Netpbm file as input. Copies each image in the input into a separate file, in the same format. pnmfile is the file specification of the input file, or - to indicate Standard Input. The default is Standard Input. output_file_pattern tells how to name the output files. It is the file specification of the output file, except that the first occurence of "%d" in it is replaced by the image sequence number in unpadded ASCII decimal, with the sequence starting at 0. If there is no "%d" in the pattern, pnmsplit fails. The default output file pattern is "image%d". Note that to do the reverse operation (combining multiple single-image PNM files into a multi-image one), there is no special Netpbm pro- gram. Just use cat. SEE ALSO
pnm(5), cat(1) AUTHOR
Written by Bryan Henderson 19 June 2000 pnmsplit(1)
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