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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Script for Beginner Post 78085 by rockytriton on Friday 15th of July 2005 10:16:26 AM
Old 07-15-2005
maybe what you want is something more like:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# Get the files
FILES=`ls -1`

for FILE in $FILES
do
    # Get the position of the .
    INDEX=`expr index "$FILE" .`

    # need to subtract 1 (you don't want the .) 
    INDEX=`expr $INDEX - 1`

    DIRNAME=`expr substr $FILE 1 $INDEX`

    if [ ! -d "destination/$DIRNAME" ]; then
        mkdir -p "destination/$DIRNAME"
    fi

    mv $FILE "destination/$DIRNAME"
done

this should handle files for more than 1 character
it could probably use more error checking, etc, but you get the idea.
Or maybe you could use the "for file in *;" format, I'm not familiar with that usage.
Last edited by rockytriton; 07-15-2005 at 11:27 AM..
 

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drop_index

DROP 
INDEX(7)							   SQL Commands 						     DROP INDEX(7)

NAME

       DROP INDEX - remove an index

SYNOPSIS

       DROP INDEX index_name [, ...] [ CASCADE | RESTRICT ]

   INPUTS
       index_name
	      The name (optionally schema-qualified) of an index to remove.

       CASCADE
	      Automatically drop objects that depend on the index.

       RESTRICT
	      Refuse to drop the index if there are any dependent objects.  This is the default.

   OUTPUTS
       DROP INDEX
	      The message returned if the command completes successfully.

       ERROR: index "index_name" does not exist
	      This message occurs if index_name is not an index in the database.

DESCRIPTION

       DROP INDEX drops an existing index from the database system. To execute this command you must be the owner of the index.

   NOTES
       DROP INDEX is a PostgreSQL language extension.

       Refer to CREATE INDEX [create_index(7)] for information on how to create indexes.

USAGE

       This command will remove the title_idx index:

	   DROP INDEX title_idx;

COMPATIBILITY

   SQL92
       SQL92  defines  commands by which to access a generic relational database.  Indexes are an implementation-dependent feature and hence there
       are no index-specific commands or definitions in the SQL92 language.

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