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Move files to (new) directory based on file name
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move-files-to-new-directory-based-on-file-name.sh
#!/bin/bash
START=$1
END=$2
for file in *; do dir=$(echo $file | cut -c $START-$END); mkdir -p $dir; mv "$file" "$dir"; done
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daysm commented Nov 2, 2020

To do this for multiple directories, the command could look like this:
for dir in dir1 dir2 dir3; do cd $dir && ../scripts/move-files-to-new-directory-based-on-file-name.sh 27 43 && cd .. ; done

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