Question

I've been trying to group a big list of txt files into sub folders, each containing random 5 files. I.e. pick 5 random files, create a new folder Group X, and move them to it.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

This is fairly straightforward:

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p groupX

for i in `seq 1 5`;
do
  files=($( ls *.txt ))
  RAN=`expr $RANDOM % ${#files[@]}`
  echo Moving "${files[$RAN]}" to folder groupX
  mv "${files[$RAN]}" groupX
done

Warning, this does no checking if there are less than 5 txt files in the directory.

Grouping TXT files

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