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Re: Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories

by xdg (Monsignor)
on Jul 18, 2006 at 01:25 UTC ( [id://561904]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Automatically distributing and finding files in subdirectories

I don't know of a module that does it and didn't see one in a quick search at search.cpan.org, but it's not that hard to split them up manually.

This fragment moves a file in the current directory to a two-level subdirectory based on the first and first-and-second letters. E.g.: README.txt goes to R/RE/README.txt.

use strict; use warnings; use File::Spec; use File::Path qw/mkpath/; my $file = shift; my $first = substr( $file, 0, 1 ); my $second = substr( $file, 0, 2 ); my $path = File::Spec->catdir( $first, $second ); mkpath( $path ); rename $file, File::Spec->catfile( $path, $file ) or die "Can't file $file\: $!";

-xdg

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