Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have several files containing experiment measurements per hour (hour_1.txt has measurements for first hour, etc..etc..). I have 720 of these files (i.e. up to hour_720.txt) and i want to create 720 directories and in every one of them i want to copy its associative file (e.g. hour1/hour_1.txt hour2/hour_2.txt etc...etc..)

i believe a combination of mkdir and cp would be hard to use for this case. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance

The one below will create a directory with name like: hour_1, hour_2, hour_N

Code:

baseToDir="./"
find <Path> -maxdepth 1 -name "hour_*" -type f | \
while read fname
do
	fileBaseName=`basename "${fname}"`
	dirName=`echo "${fileBaseName}" | cut -f1 -d"."`
	
	nDirName="${baseToDir}/${dirName}"
	mkdir -p "${nDirName}"
	cp "${fname}" "${nDirName}"
done

Hi felipe.vinturin and thanks for the quick reply

I've tried your code (i inserted the path in <Path> which is /home/dataset/) and i'm getting the error:

find `1': No such file or directory

(i know it might be a stupid question but is my first time using find and a .sh script)

Please, execute the command below:

Code:

find /home/dataset -maxdepth 1 -name "hour_*.txt" -type f

I think it is an environment issue, because some "find" command distributions does not accept the: "-maxdepth" option.

If you want you can remove it: "-maxdepth 1", but it will try to find all files that match the pattern: "hour_*.txt" under the directory ("/home/dataset"), I mean, it will include subdirectories.

thank you felipe.vintourin! it worked perfectly well now! Cheers!