In the same parent directory there are corresponding directories named IDENTIFIER1, IDENTIFIER2, IDENTIFIER3,...etc
I created a text file (namesUC.txt) with the list of the names of empty directories.
What would be a simple script to read every line of namesUC.txt and execute move all files with IDENTIFIERi* to their corresponding directory /IDENTIFIERi
Thanks
#Sample data below
#First line with no extension is the directory and the rest are the matching files
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If you don't want to go to the bother of creating namesUC.txt you could also let the script process all regular files in the directory with names that start with the same name as a directory in that same directory. For example, with a starting file hierarchy like:
Code:
total 40
123274998 0 drwxr-xr-x 13 dwc staff 442 Feb 14 12:05 .
545528 0 drwxr-xr-x 336 dwc staff 11424 Feb 13 19:00 ..
125085846 24 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 12288 Feb 14 12:04 .tester.swp
125085778 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 dwc staff 68 Feb 14 12:05 d1
125085791 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d1.txt
125085792 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d1.yyy
125085790 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d1T
125085779 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 dwc staff 68 Feb 14 12:05 d2
125085793 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d2_Z
125085794 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d2a
125085795 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 dt.YYY
125085841 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 1576 Feb 14 12:02 problem
125085871 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 dwc staff 126 Feb 14 12:04 tester
./d1:
total 0
125085778 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 dwc staff 68 Feb 14 12:05 .
123274998 0 drwxr-xr-x 13 dwc staff 442 Feb 14 12:05 ..
./d2:
total 0
125085779 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 dwc staff 68 Feb 14 12:05 .
123274998 0 drwxr-xr-x 13 dwc staff 442 Feb 14 12:05 ..
and the script tester containing:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
for dir in */
do for file in "${dir%/}"?*
do [ -f "$file" ] && mv -v "$file" "$dir"
done
done
total 16
123274998 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 dwc staff 238 Feb 14 12:13 .
545528 0 drwxr-xr-x 336 dwc staff 11424 Feb 13 19:00 ..
125085778 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 dwc staff 170 Feb 14 12:13 d1
125085779 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 dwc staff 136 Feb 14 12:13 d2
125085795 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 dt.YYY
125085841 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 1576 Feb 14 12:02 problem
125085871 8 -rwxr-xr-x 1 dwc staff 126 Feb 14 12:04 tester
./d1:
total 0
125085778 0 drwxr-xr-x 5 dwc staff 170 Feb 14 12:13 .
123274998 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 dwc staff 238 Feb 14 12:13 ..
125085791 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d1.txt
125085792 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d1.yyy
125085790 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d1T
./d2:
total 0
125085779 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 dwc staff 136 Feb 14 12:13 .
123274998 0 drwxr-xr-x 7 dwc staff 238 Feb 14 12:13 ..
125085793 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dwc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d2_Z
125085794 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 doc staff 0 Feb 14 11:58 d2a
Although this was written and tested using a 1993 version of the Korn shell, it will work with any POSIX-conforming shell.
Note that if you rerun the above script before adding more regular files to be moved into the various subdirectories, it produces no output and returns a zero exit status. If you rerun RudiC's script under the same circumstances, you'll get an error processing each directory that has no new files to be moved similar to:
Code:
mv: rename d1?* to d1/d1?*: No such file or directory
mv: rename d2?* to d2/d2?*: No such file or directory
assuming namesUC.txt
contained:
Code:
d1
d2
Neither of our scripts reliably return a non-zero exit status if one or more regular files couldn't be moved and another file was moved. Both could be extended to do so if just getting diagnostic messages from mv for failed moves is insufficient for your needs.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-23-2016 at 05:43 AM..
This User Gave Thanks to Don Cragun For This Post:
Yes, this works perfectly also but originally the empty directories are not there. I create them using code below
Code:
#create filename list text
$ls -1 directory/filter* > names.txt
#get first 21 characters of the name only and remove duplicates
#create unique-clean filename list text
$cut -c-21 names.txt | grep -v filter|uniq > namesUC.txt
#make directories
$cat namesUC.txt | xargs mkdir
Is there a way to have the tester include the creation of the directories with the corresponding name as in the example?
Thanks
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-15-2016 at 02:41 PM..
Reason: Change ICODE tags to CODE tags.
spirospap$ cat tester1
#!/bin/ksh
ls LC* | cut -c 1-21 | sort -u | xargs mkdir -p
for dir in */
do for file in "${dir%/}"?*
do [ -f "$file" ] && mv -v "$file" "$dir"
done
Thanks!
Moderator's Comments:
Please use CODE tags (not ICODE tags) for full-line and multi-line sample input, output, and code segments.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 02-15-2016 at 02:43 PM..
Reason: Change ICODE tags to CODE tags.
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