Shell Programming and Scripting

hello
I want to delete the lines of many files (e.g. file1, file2, ..., file1111) in my directory (e.g. dir1) that they have the 2nd column grater than a value (e.g. 40) placing them to a different directory (e.g. newdir) and keeping the originals. I wrote the code which is functional

Code:

awk '{ if ($20<40) print}' file*.txt > file*.txt

the output of the left part is fine but I cannot achieve to save the output to another directory as files with the same name .
Thank you in advance for your time and help

In your old directory (dir1)

Code:

mkdir ../newdir

for file in *
do
awk '$20<40' $file > ../newdir/$file
done

Note that newdir will be same level as your olddir

Hello Senhia83/Phaethon,

Yes script looks to work same as requested, but it is always good practice to mention the complete path in spite of relative path. Otherwise we need to put the script a specific directory only. Following may also help in same.

Code:

for FILE in /my_dir/file*
do
awk '$20<40' $FILE > /tmp/test/$FILE
done

NOTE: I have just taken an example here for paths you can mention the exact path according to your need.


Thanks,
R. Singh

thank you both for your time and help! it worked! much appreciated!