Anilrgowda

Question: I have a directory called /HOLD on my RHEL4 Linux server. Files get dumped into that directory that need to be moved into another directory based on the file name. The file names are as follows:

BBB-00019-615619-65465183.pdf
QLD-00123-698231-651321684321.pdf
COW-00102-321583-48731.pdf

Where the first set of digits (between the first and second dashes) is the "customer number". So in the first BBB example, 00019 is the customer number.

I need a scrip that reads the /HOLD directory, finds the customer number (which will always be the 5th through 9th characters) and move it to the /CUSTOMER/CUSTNUM directory.

So for the first BBB example, the file would be moved to /CUSTOMER/00019 directory.

Here is the catch. I need the script to first check to see if the customer directory exists, and if it doesnt, it needs to CREATE the directory, THEN move the file into the the directory.

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Anilrgowda

Sorry, I though you had the first part already. Here it is in bash.

#!/bin/bash

# set these to the appropriate directories
HOLD=~/HOLD
CUSTOMERS=~/CUSTOMERS

for FILE in $HOLD/*; do
# get the customer number
CUSTNUM=`echo $FILE | awk -F\- {'print $2'}`

# check if the customer dir exists, if not create it
if [ ! -d $CUSTOMERS/$CUSTNUM ];then
mkdir $CUSTOMERS/$CUSTNUM
fi

# move the file
mv $FILE $CUSTOMERS/$CUSTNUM/

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