Re: create directories based on directory contents

gmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Suppose I have the following directory structure:

photos
|-AAA_100.jpg
|-AAA_101.jpg
|-AAA_102.jpg
|-XXXXX_100.jpg
|-XXXXX_101.jpg
|-XXXXX_100.jpg
|-ZZ_100.jpg
|-ZZ_101.jpg

is it possible to issue some commands that will automatically create 3
subdirectories, AAA, XXXXX, ZZ and subsequently move all the files
into these folders?

ls|cut -f1 -d_|sort|uniq|while read i; do
mkdir "$i"
mv "$i"_* "$i"
done



Florian
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