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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Move File Containing More Than two "-" at 3rd Line To New Directory Post 302944192 by Nexeu on Sunday 17th of May 2015 02:32:32 AM
Old 05-17-2015
What if we execute commands one by one, will it be easier? There was a time I was executing many different command lines by writing them all in a text editor and saved it as Unix Executable File . I don't know what you all call this process but I found it out myself so I don't what this process is called. Smilie

So there was a time I did this to organise file by using mv filename containing "x" into folder x with respect to the amount of x.

The script was like this [This script wasn't about this problem]

Code:
mkdir x
mkdir xx
mkdir xxx
mkdir xxxx
mkdir xxxxx
mkdir xxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mkdir xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xxx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './xx'
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*x*' -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' './x'

find . -empty -type d -delete

And I dragged that Unix Executable File into Terminal and hit Enter. Terminal executed all of them one by one.

My command is kind of amateur but I kind of managed to execute them in orderly manner. Smilie

At that time I had a million over files and these command could do the work.

I wasn't also sure how many x there could be in filename so I wrote the command as many as I thought it would be.

But of course, this is just executing filename so it was easy and I didn't expect executing file-content would so hard Smilie

Sorry guys.
 

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