Shell Programming and Scripting

# you need a list of the file names you want to move, there are limits to using *
cd /path/to/bulk/files
ls > /tmp/bulk.lis
cnt=0
fcnt=0
newdir=/path/to/new/files${cnt}
mkdir $newdir
while read fname
do
     fcnt=$(( $fcnt + 1 ))
     t=$(( $fcnt % 1000 ))
     if [ $t -eq 0 ] ; then
        cnt=$(( $cnt + 1 ))
        newdir=/path/to/new/files${cnt}
        mkdir $newdir
     fi
     mv $fname $newdir/$(basename $fname)
done <  /tmp/bulk.lis

mv "$fname" "$newdir/$(basename "$fname")"