Shell Programming and Scripting

#! /bin/bash

# range of directories to look into, change as needed
for d in {1,2}_{1..6} 
do
    dst=$(echo "$d" | cut -d"_" -f1) # name of destination directory
    [ -d "$dst" ] || mkdir "$dst"    # create new directory if it does not exist
    cp "$d"/* "$dst"  2> /dev/null   # copy content to new directory
done

$ ls | sort
33_0
33_1
33_2
33_3
33_4
33_5
33_6
39_0
39_1
39_2
39_3
39_4
39_5
39_6
41_0
41_1
41_2
41_3
41_4
41_5
41_6

for d in {33..41}_{0..6}

#! /bin/bash

# range of directories to look into, change as needed
for d in {33..43}_{0..6} 
do
    dst=$(echo "$d" | cut -d"_" -f1) # name of destination directory
    [ -d "$dst" ] || mkdir "$dst"    # create new directory if it does not exist
    mv "$d"/* "$dst"  2> /dev/null   # copy content to new directory
    rm -R "$d"
done

find -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

for dir in $(echo *_* | sed -e 's^_.*^^')
do
mkdir -p ${dir}
mv ${dir}_*/* ${dir}
done

$ ls -R
.:
11    11_1  11_3  11_5  17_0  17_2  17_4  17_6
11_0  11_2  11_4  11_6  17_1  17_3  17_5  sortBack2

./11:
ZN_000204_sRGB_g2.tiff  ZN_234121_sRGB_g2.tiff  ZN_235652_sRGB_g2.tiff
ZN_233105_sRGB_g2.tiff  ZN_234630_sRGB_g2.tiff
ZN_233613_sRGB_g2.tiff  ZN_235140_sRGB_g2.tiff

./11_0:

./11_1:

./11_2:

./11_3:

./11_4:

./11_5:

./11_6:

./17_0:
ZN_032122_sRGB_g2.tiff

./17_1:
ZN_032714_sRGB_g2.tiff

./17_2:
ZN_033307_sRGB_g2.tiff

./17_3:
ZN_033901_sRGB_g2.tiff

./17_4:
ZN_034455_sRGB_g2.tiff

./17_5:
ZN_035051_sRGB_g2.tiff

./17_6:
ZN_035648_sRGB_g2.tiff

#! /bin/bash

# range of directories to look into, change as needed
for d in *                               # list everything under current directory
do
    if test -d "$d"; then                # if it's a directory
        dst=${d%%_*}                     # name of destination directory
        [ -d "$dst" ] || mkdir "$dst"    # create new directory if it does not exist
        cp "$d"/* "$dst"  2> /dev/null   # copy content to new directory
    fi
done

# range of directories to look into, change as needed
for d in *                               # list everything under current directory
do
    if test -d "$d"; then                # if it's a directory
        dst=${d%%_*}                     # name of destination directory
        [ -d "$dst" ] || mkdir "$dst"    # create new directory if it does not exist
        mv "$d"/* "$dst"  2> /dev/null   # move content to new directory
        rm -R "$d"                             # delete the source directory
    fi
done