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thank you it's working now
but how can i do the same but if i have the files:

Code:

10_10_asdadfsdfad.txt
10_10_11_asdawqefwkjasd.txt
10_10_11_12_asdafjjhoqwd.txt

i want to put them in exist directory thart i have on my system
directories:

Code:

10_10
10_10_11
10_10_11_12

i want to put file : "10_10_asdadfsdfad.txt" in directory "10_10"

i want to put file : "10_10_11_asdawqefwkjasd.txt" in directory "10_10_11"

i want to put file : "10_10_11_12_asdafjjhoqwd.txt" in directory "10_10_12"

how can i do that we can use the same code u have give it to me but how can we edit it to make that possible .
thank you for your help & time, I need ur reply as faster as possible

I presume that should be

Code:

for FILE in 10_10*.txt; do
  cp "$FILE" ../test2/"${FILE%_*}"
done

(if any of your filenames have additional underscore (_) characters, this won't handle that)

cp: cannot access 10_10*.txt
error msg
thanks for ur reply

Then I guess either that your .txt files are in another directory, have another name, or you don't have permission to read them.

i fixed and check it and now it's runing thank you alott for your help
but i need another favor from you
what if i have another file called 5_54_6532467 i want to copy with them in another direcotry but have the same name of it 5_54_6532467

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how can i copy all of them in one code ??
i want to put file : "10_10_asdadfsdfad." in directory "10_10"

i want to put file : "10_10_11_asdawqefwkjasd" in directory "10_10_11"

i want to put file : "10_10_11_12_asdafjjhoqwd" in directory "10_10_12"

i want to put file : "5_54_6532467" in directory "5_54_6532467"

Should be something like this:

Code:

filecnt=0

for file in 10_10*
do
  directory=${file%_[a-zA-Z]*}
  mkdir -f ../test2/${directory}
  cp "$file" ../test2/${directory}/
  filecnt=$(( $filecnt + 1 ))
done

echo "$filecnt files copied"

thanks alott it workss
what if i want to but if condition to check out if the file exists in the directory or not
if the file exists then check the size of the file if the size zero then copy it if the file bigger that zero then don't copy. if the file not exists copy it. and i want to make the code to read the path as paramter of the file "pwd".
thanks for ur help