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I want to move all files that contain a number greater than 25 (at least on one instance) but don't contain any number smaller than 25 after the string >randomnumber_xxx_ to a specific folder.
Example of a file that needs to be moved:
>23424_xxx_26
>331134_xxx_27
>6634_xxx_30
Example of a file that doesn't need to be moved:
>22234_xxx_20
>434534_xxx_27
text-processing files
asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
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I want to move all files that contain a number greater than 25 (at least on one instance) but don't contain any number smaller than 25 after the string >randomnumber_xxx_ to a specific folder.
Example of a file that needs to be moved:
>23424_xxx_26
>331134_xxx_27
>6634_xxx_30
Example of a file that doesn't need to be moved:
>22234_xxx_20
>434534_xxx_27
text-processing files
asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
31
add a comment |
I want to move all files that contain a number greater than 25 (at least on one instance) but don't contain any number smaller than 25 after the string >randomnumber_xxx_ to a specific folder.
Example of a file that needs to be moved:
>23424_xxx_26
>331134_xxx_27
>6634_xxx_30
Example of a file that doesn't need to be moved:
>22234_xxx_20
>434534_xxx_27
text-processing files
asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
31
I want to move all files that contain a number greater than 25 (at least on one instance) but don't contain any number smaller than 25 after the string >randomnumber_xxx_ to a specific folder.
Example of a file that needs to be moved:
>23424_xxx_26
>331134_xxx_27
>6634_xxx_30
Example of a file that doesn't need to be moved:
>22234_xxx_20
>434534_xxx_27
text-processing files
text-processing files
asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
31
asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
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asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
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asked Feb 20 at 6:11
holahola
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asked Feb 20 at 6:11
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So, the first issue is to detect the files that needs to be moved.
This could be done using grep:
grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$'
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$'
These commands would return true if the input data contained a line that matched the given extended regular expressions.
The expression _(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$ would match any positive integer less than 25 occurring at the end of a line after an underscore, and _(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$ matches any positive integer greater than or equal to 25 at the end of the line after an underscore (assuming there are no zero-filled integers such as 002). We also match the > at the start of the line. The -q option would stop grep from actually outputting anything (we're only interested in whether we could find one of these lines or not).
For a file to be copied, the first grep must return false and the second grep must return true.
Applying this to each file of a directory (in this case regardless of what the files are called as you did not say anything about this):
for filename in ./*; do
[ ! -f "$filename" ] && continue
if ! grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$' "$filename" &&
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$' "$filename"
then
mv -i "$filename" /some/destination
fi
done
This would move the files that fulfil the requirements to some destination directory at /some/destination. The -i option to mv would cause the utility to ask for confirmation before overwriting an already existing file with the same name as the file being moved.
The first [ ! -f ... ] test in the loop would skip anything in the directory that is not a regular file (or a symbolic link to a regular file).
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3,"it will match 001, which is less than 25.
– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
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So, the first issue is to detect the files that needs to be moved.
This could be done using grep:
grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$'
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$'
These commands would return true if the input data contained a line that matched the given extended regular expressions.
The expression _(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$ would match any positive integer less than 25 occurring at the end of a line after an underscore, and _(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$ matches any positive integer greater than or equal to 25 at the end of the line after an underscore (assuming there are no zero-filled integers such as 002). We also match the > at the start of the line. The -q option would stop grep from actually outputting anything (we're only interested in whether we could find one of these lines or not).
For a file to be copied, the first grep must return false and the second grep must return true.
Applying this to each file of a directory (in this case regardless of what the files are called as you did not say anything about this):
for filename in ./*; do
[ ! -f "$filename" ] && continue
if ! grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$' "$filename" &&
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$' "$filename"
then
mv -i "$filename" /some/destination
fi
done
This would move the files that fulfil the requirements to some destination directory at /some/destination. The -i option to mv would cause the utility to ask for confirmation before overwriting an already existing file with the same name as the file being moved.
The first [ ! -f ... ] test in the loop would skip anything in the directory that is not a regular file (or a symbolic link to a regular file).
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3,"it will match 001, which is less than 25.
– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
add a comment |
So, the first issue is to detect the files that needs to be moved.
This could be done using grep:
grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$'
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$'
These commands would return true if the input data contained a line that matched the given extended regular expressions.
The expression _(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$ would match any positive integer less than 25 occurring at the end of a line after an underscore, and _(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$ matches any positive integer greater than or equal to 25 at the end of the line after an underscore (assuming there are no zero-filled integers such as 002). We also match the > at the start of the line. The -q option would stop grep from actually outputting anything (we're only interested in whether we could find one of these lines or not).
For a file to be copied, the first grep must return false and the second grep must return true.
Applying this to each file of a directory (in this case regardless of what the files are called as you did not say anything about this):
for filename in ./*; do
[ ! -f "$filename" ] && continue
if ! grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$' "$filename" &&
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$' "$filename"
then
mv -i "$filename" /some/destination
fi
done
This would move the files that fulfil the requirements to some destination directory at /some/destination. The -i option to mv would cause the utility to ask for confirmation before overwriting an already existing file with the same name as the file being moved.
The first [ ! -f ... ] test in the loop would skip anything in the directory that is not a regular file (or a symbolic link to a regular file).
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3,"it will match 001, which is less than 25.
– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
add a comment |
So, the first issue is to detect the files that needs to be moved.
This could be done using grep:
grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$'
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$'
These commands would return true if the input data contained a line that matched the given extended regular expressions.
The expression _(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$ would match any positive integer less than 25 occurring at the end of a line after an underscore, and _(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$ matches any positive integer greater than or equal to 25 at the end of the line after an underscore (assuming there are no zero-filled integers such as 002). We also match the > at the start of the line. The -q option would stop grep from actually outputting anything (we're only interested in whether we could find one of these lines or not).
For a file to be copied, the first grep must return false and the second grep must return true.
Applying this to each file of a directory (in this case regardless of what the files are called as you did not say anything about this):
for filename in ./*; do
[ ! -f "$filename" ] && continue
if ! grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$' "$filename" &&
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$' "$filename"
then
mv -i "$filename" /some/destination
fi
done
This would move the files that fulfil the requirements to some destination directory at /some/destination. The -i option to mv would cause the utility to ask for confirmation before overwriting an already existing file with the same name as the file being moved.
The first [ ! -f ... ] test in the loop would skip anything in the directory that is not a regular file (or a symbolic link to a regular file).
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
So, the first issue is to detect the files that needs to be moved.
This could be done using grep:
grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$'
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$'
These commands would return true if the input data contained a line that matched the given extended regular expressions.
The expression _(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$ would match any positive integer less than 25 occurring at the end of a line after an underscore, and _(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$ matches any positive integer greater than or equal to 25 at the end of the line after an underscore (assuming there are no zero-filled integers such as 002). We also match the > at the start of the line. The -q option would stop grep from actually outputting anything (we're only interested in whether we could find one of these lines or not).
For a file to be copied, the first grep must return false and the second grep must return true.
Applying this to each file of a directory (in this case regardless of what the files are called as you did not say anything about this):
for filename in ./*; do
[ ! -f "$filename" ] && continue
if ! grep -q -E '^>.*_(1?[0-9]|2[0-4])$' "$filename" &&
grep -q -E '^>.*_(2[5-9]|[3-9][0-9]|[0-9]3,)$' "$filename"
then
mv -i "$filename" /some/destination
fi
done
This would move the files that fulfil the requirements to some destination directory at /some/destination. The -i option to mv would cause the utility to ask for confirmation before overwriting an already existing file with the same name as the file being moved.
The first [ ! -f ... ] test in the loop would skip anything in the directory that is not a regular file (or a symbolic link to a regular file).
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
edited Feb 20 at 8:10
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
answered Feb 20 at 7:54
KusalanandaKusalananda
135k17256424
135k17256424
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3,"it will match 001, which is less than 25.
– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
add a comment |
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3,"it will match 001, which is less than 25.
– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3," it will match 001, which is less than 25.– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
echo 001 | grep -Ee "[0-9]3," it will match 001, which is less than 25.– Prvt_Yadv
Feb 20 at 8:03
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
@PRY With the added assumption about integers that are not zero-filled, I think this should be ok.
– Kusalananda
Feb 20 at 8:10
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
Worked great. Thanks!
– hola
Feb 20 at 16:39
add a comment |
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