Shell Programming and Scripting

The output you have shown looks good. The mv statement is trying to move 4 files each to the 6 directories.

Now you may remove the "echo" before mv statement and run the script to actually move the files.

I have tested this for number of files not being exact multiple of 6 as well and it worked.

aha, yes I see the result on the monitor and it seems good, but nothing moved.
I understand you now when you said remove echo after verified.

Done.
The result is great.
Thanks a lot Mr. krishmaths

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Another point please.
After this distribution process is done, there are some services is down, don't worry about that.
Now I wrote a small script called (jjjjj.sh) to check if the process is up, if no the script will up it.

Note:
rating = the name of the user who own the service.

PRE_VOICE_O_2 = the service name which I look for it.

The long line in the script, don't worry about it, just check the first 2 lines.

Code:

 
ps -fu rating |grep -E "PRE_VOICE_O_2" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | wc -l | read PRE_VOICE
if [ PRE_VOICE -le 1 ]
then
nohup /bossapp1/rating/bin/ratprecdr PRE_VOICE_O_2 1 1 1 0 97 106 1 >>~/log/precdr/prevoice2.out &
fi

Now, when I run it, this error is appearing:
./jjjjj.sh: line 2: [: PRE_VOICE: integer expression expected

Looks like you missed a $ to refer the variable.

Code:

if [ $PRE_VOICE -le 1 ]

Thanks dear.
The problem was a tiny note:
Thr word (rating) which is the user name, I must write it in a separate line as the following: user=rating
then in all lines I must write:

Code:

 
ps -fu $user |grep -E "PRE_VOICE_O_2" | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | wc -l | read PRE_VOICE

another note, I must write the line: #!/usr/bin/ksh in the beginning

In the future, when the follow up is unrelated to the thread's topic, start a new thread.

Regards,
Alister

Yes, right.
Sorry for that Alister

If you don't have any preference which file goes where, you could try

Code:

mkdir tmpdir
DIRS=( $(ls -d S*) )
FILES=( $(ls tmpdir/*) )
CNT=$((${#FILES[@]} / ${#DIRS[@]}))
for D in ${DIRS[@]}; do for ((i=0; i<=$CNT; i++)); do echo mv ${FILES[ST++]} $D; done; done
rmdir tmpdir