Shell Programming and Scripting

for file in * ; do
dir=$( echo $file | cut -c1-8 ) 
    [ -d $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir     
echo "$dir was created "
[ -f $file  ] && mv  $file  $dir      
echo "Move $file  $dir"    >>  /user/$dir.log 
     sort -u  /user/$dir.log
done

for file in * ; do
  dir=$( echo $file | cut -c1-8 )
  [ -d $dir ] || mkdir -p $dir
  echo "$dir was created"
  [ -f $file ] && mv $file $dir

  log=/user/$dir.log
  echo "Move $file $dir" >> $log
  sort -u $log > /tmp/temp.x
  mv /tmp/temp.x $log
done

for file in ?????????* ; do
  [ -f "$file" ] || continue
  dir=$( echo "$file" | cut -c1-8 )
  [ -d "$dir" ] || mkdir -p "$dir"
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