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Old 08-14-2013
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Originally Posted by peekuabc
Hi All,
I have to requirement to write a shell script to move file from one folder (A) to another five folder (B,C,D,E,F) and destination folder should be blank. In not blank just skip.
This script will run as a scheduler every 2 minutes. It will check number of files in folder A and move 1 to each destination folder.
For example:
if Folder A has one file, it will move to Folder B and quit.
If folder A has 2 files, move to B and C and quit.
If folder A has 5 files, move to one in each folder. (Each destination folder shoud have unique file)
In case folder A has more than 5 files, it will move 5 and quit, and next time when this script kick-off, it will take...
and so on....
Can anyone help with this please?
Let me get this straight.
  1. If you don't have any files in directory A, the script should just quit.
  2. If it has 1 file (say file1), move it to directory B and exit.
  3. If it has 2 files (say file1 and file2), move them to directory B and directory, respectively, and so forth, so
  4. if it contains 6 files (say file1, file2, file3, file4, file5 and file6) the script should move them to directory B, directory C, directory D, directory E and directory F, respectively, leaving only file6 in directory A, am I correct?
  5. Then when the script runs the next time, since directory A only contains file6, it should move it to directory B, then exit?
That being said, your forgot to mention what OS you're using and which shell. Also, it would be helpful to see what you've already tried.
 

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COLORS(3)						   libbash colors Library Manual						 COLORS(3)

NAME
colors -- libbash library for setting tty colors. SYNOPSIS
colorSet <color> colorReset colorPrint [<indent>] <color> <text> colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> <text> DESCRIPTION
General colors is a collection of functions that make it very easy to put colored text on tty. The function list: colorSet Sets the color of the prints to the tty to COLOR colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal colorPrint Prints TEXT in the color COLOR indented by INDENT (without adding a newline) colorPrintN The same as colorPrint, but trailing newline is added Detailed interface description follows. Available colors: Green Red Yellow White The color parameter is non-case-sensitive (i.e. RED, red, ReD, and all the other forms are valid and are the same as Red). FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
colorSet <color> Sets the current printing color to color. colorReset Resets current tty color back to normal. colorPrint [<indent>] <color> Prints text using the color color indented by indent (without adding a newline). Parameters: <indent> The column to move to before start printing. This parameter is optional. If ommitted - start output from current cursor position. <color> The color to use. <color> The text to print. colorPrintN [<indent>] <color> The same as colorPrint, except a trailing newline is added. EXAMPLES
Printing a green 'Hello World' with a newline: Using colorSet: $ colorSet green $ echo 'Hello World' $ colorReset Using colorPrint: $ colorPrint 'Hello World'; echo Using colorPrintN: $ colorPrintN 'Hello World' AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com> Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net> SEE ALSO
ldbash(1), libbash(1) Linux Epoch Linux
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