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regular expression with awk

Section/TeamName/age/NAME/[Jan/Feb/Mar....etc].txt

       

EngineeringDepartment/TeamA/25-30/John/Jan.txt

       

cp EngineeringDepartment/TeamA/25-30/John/Jan.txt ./total/John/Jan.txt

       

#!/bin/bash

find . -name "*.txt" | awk -v FS="/" '{system("mkdir -p ./total/" $5)}'

find . -name total -prune -o -type f -name "*.txt" -print | awk -v FS="/" '{src = $1 "/" $2 "/" $3 "/" $4 "/" $5 "/" $6; dst = "./total/" $5; system("cp " src " " dst)}'

       

mkdir total                                   # Example data:

for file in */*/*/*/*.txt ; do                # EngDept/TeamA/25-30/John/Jan.txt

   sec_team_age=$(dirname $(dirname "$file")) # EngDept/TeamA/25-30

   name_month=${file#"$sec_team_age/"}        # John/Jan.txt

   mkdir -p $(dirname total/$name_month)      # mkdir -p total/John

   cp $file total/$name_month                 # cp $file total/John/Jan.txt

done