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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move matching file to folder in same directory Post 303031698 by Don Cragun on Monday 4th of March 2019 12:42:43 PM
Old 03-04-2019
Maybe something a little faster and easier (i.e., no invocations of awk, basename, cut, find, or sort), like:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
set -xv
cd /home/cmccabe/folder || exit 1
for pdf in *.pdf
do	# Extract common component from the name...
	key=${pdf#*_*_*_}	# Get rid of 1st 3 underscores and everything
				# before them.
	key=${key%%_*}		# Get rid of the next underscore and everything
				# after it.

	# Copy PDF file to directory with a name containing the key.
	cp "$pdf" *"$key"*/
done

This was tested with both bash and ksh on macOS Mojave, version 10.14.3 and seems to do what you want with the two sample PDF files and the two sample directory names provided in this thread. The PDF files were copied to the expected directories.
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