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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Split a folder with huge number of files in n folders Post 302906654 by AlokKumbhare on Sunday 22nd of June 2014 04:00:12 PM
Old 06-22-2014
Thanks. I have something similar. But I was wondering if there is a way to do this without the explicit loop and moving one file at a time. This is too slow and we have to perform this operation on multiple folders of the given size.



Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try something like:
Code:
cd XYZ
n=0
for i in *
do
  if [ $((n+=1)) -gt 10 ]; then
    n=1
  fi
  todir=../XYZ$n
  [ -d "$todir" ] || mkdir "$todir" 
  mv "$i" "$todir" 
done

Try it out on a test directory first and/or prepend echo to the mv command to see if it works as desired...
 

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RMF(1)                                                               [nmh-1.5]                                                              RMF(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If  there  are  any  files  within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced.  If the
       folder is given explicitly or the -nointeractive option is given, then the folder will be removed  without  confirmation.   Otherwise,  the
       user  will be asked for confirmation.  If rmf can't find the current folder, for some reason, the folder to be removed defaults to `+inbox'
       (unless overridden by user's profile entry "Inbox") with confirmation.

       If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce  a  message  telling
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

       rmm(1)

DEFAULTS

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