create a folder for each file

Question

I have different files that their names contain the same pattern - 'part + (number)'. For example:

part 1.txt
part 2.txt

I want to create a folder for each file, to name the folder in the same name as the file, and to insert the file into his matching folder.

Have a look here... https://stackoverflow.com/a/58379836/2836621 — Mark Setchell, Mar 29 '20 at 11:14
Same name as in the directory will have the `.txt` extension as well? — Jetchisel, Mar 29 '20 at 11:17

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '20 at 12:04

To move regular files with prefix part containing a suffix, you could do:

shop -s nullglob
for file in part*.*; do
  [ -f "$file" ] || continue
  dir=${file%.*}
  mkdir -p "$dir" && mv -i "$file" "$dir"
done

This enables Bash's shell options nullglob to expand non-matching patterns to a null string and the
test [ -f "$file" ] || continue skips non-regular files. The pattern ${file%.*} removes the suffix from the filename.
Option -p ignores an already existing directory and -i prompts if the file should already exist in the directory.

You're right, `nullglob` can be removed if the file check is present. This is redundant. — Freddy, Mar 29 '20 at 12:29

create a folder for each file

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