Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/bash

file='1.2699.gz' # This line does not affect the output produced by this script.
files=`cat cleanerror.txt`
filesdir=`sed -e 's/$file//g' cleanerror.txt
# Since $file is not expanded when it appears between single quotes, unless
# the string '$file' appears in some of the pathnames in cleanerror.txt, this
# line could be replaced by: filesdir="$files"
# So, both $files and $filesdir expand to your list of 5000 target files.

for i in $filesdir; do
mkdir -p $i # This will create a new directory for every target file,
done

for i in $files; do
cp "/mnt/cifs/$i" $i # This will add a new directory into the target file pathname.
chown user:group $i
# This above line will change the owner of the directory containing the
# target file; not the target file itself.
done

/folder/path/path2/pathX/file.lua,d/1.2699.gz

/folder/path/path2/pathX/file.lua,d/1.2699.gz

/mnt/cifs/folder/path/path2/pathX/file.lua,d/1.2699.gz

/folder/path/path2/pathX/file.lua,d/1.2699.gz/i.2699.gz

#!/bin/bash
while IFS='' read -r file
do      filedir="${file%/*}"
        if [ ! -d "$filedir" ]
        then    mkdir -p "$filedir"
        fi
        cp "/mnt/cifs/$file" "$file"
done < cleanerror.txt

# yum install pax