I have several folders (amazon, niger, rhine,...). Inside each of them I have several subfolders (gfdl, hadgem, ipsl,...). Each subfolders is composed by 5 subfolders (e.g. in amazon, the subfolder gfdl is composed by 5 subfolder 'amazon_gfdl', 'amazon_gfdl1', ..., 'amazon_gfdl5'); and the others subfolders follow the same structure (e.g. in amazon subfolder ipsl is composed by 5 subfolders 'amazon_ipsl', 'amazon_ipsl1', 'amazon_ipsl2',...until 'amazon_ipsl5'. I have a huge amount of folder following the same frame of organisation. Therefore my question is the following: How can I organise each folder and subfolder in such a way that in each subfolder (gfdl, hadgem,ipsl,...), 4 new directories are created (1, 2, 3, 4); and then that the folder e.g. amazon_gfdl (already present in gfdl) is copied in each of those new directories and finally that amazon_gfdl1 is moved to the new directory 1, amazon_gfdl2 is moved to the new directory 2, and so on! I am currently using the command cp and move within each subfolders but its not really efficient and I might need an extra life to end this task like that! Therefor any helps or hint will be greatly appreciated. Thanks you very much!
Folder organization
bash;cp;mv;mkdir
You can write a tiny script to do that for you, along these lines (adjust as needed, I'm not sure I got the story right):> cat tst.sh #!/bin/bashfor river in amazon niger rhine ; do    for name in gfdl hadgem ipsl ; do        for count in 1 2 3 4 ; do            mkdir ${river}/${name}/${count}            cp -a ${river}/${name}/${river}_${name} ${river}/${name}/${count}            mv ${river}/${name}/${river}_${name}${count} ${river}/${name}/${count}        done    donedoneBefore running it:> find . | sort../amazon./amazon/gfdl./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl1./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl2./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl3./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl4./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl5...Result:> chmod u+x tst.sh> ./tst.sh> find . | sort../amazon./amazon/gfdl./amazon/gfdl/1./amazon/gfdl/1/amazon_gfdl./amazon/gfdl/1/amazon_gfdl1./amazon/gfdl/2./amazon/gfdl/2/amazon_gfdl./amazon/gfdl/2/amazon_gfdl2./amazon/gfdl/3./amazon/gfdl/3/amazon_gfdl./amazon/gfdl/3/amazon_gfdl3./amazon/gfdl/4./amazon/gfdl/4/amazon_gfdl./amazon/gfdl/4/amazon_gfdl4./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl./amazon/gfdl/amazon_gfdl5...