move file one by one

burner.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
## This is the target path, the directory
## you want to copy to.
target=$2;

## Find all files and folders in the current directory, sort
## them reverse alphabetically and iterate through them
find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort -r | while IFS= read -r file; do
    ## Set the counter back to 0 for each file
    counter=0;
    ## The counter will be 0 until the file is moved
    while [ $counter -eq 0 ]; do
      ## If the directory has no files
      if find "$target" -maxdepth 0 -empty | read; 
      then 
          ## Move the current file to $target and increment
          ## the counter.
          mv -v "$file" "$target" && counter=1; 
      else
          ## Uncomment the line below for debugging 
          # echo "Directory not empty: $(find "$target" -mindepth 1)"

          ## Wait for one second. This avoids spamming 
          ## the system with multiple requests.
          sleep 1; 
      fi;
    done;
done