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Perhaps try the split command.

@ guptam,

If a directory named dir3 is already exists, then xargs will move that 26 files to that directory ..

If dir3 not exists, then shell will treat that has a file instead of...

This is interesting. The first command fails if the directory /dir1/dir2/dir3 does not exist. The second command creates a file under /dir1/dir2 called dir3 if /dir1/dir2 exists but /dir1/dir2/dir3...

The strange thing is ${16} is not valid awk syntax, it should be $16

sort needs somewhere to create work file(s) used during its processing, these are usually in /tmp or $TMPDIR, but the option is given to the user to select a 'scratch' area .... so, its optional