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How to move only a specific amount of images from a folder

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I have a folder that has 200.000 images. I want to do the following:

Move an X amount of images (50 images, 100 images, 200 images) from that folder to Y folder.

Each Y folder can be a number (Folder 1, Folder 2, Folder 3...).

The end result might look like this:

Folder 1 (Has X amount of images)
Folder 2 (Has X amount of images)
Folder 3 (Has X amount of images)
Folder 4 (Has X amount of images)

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answered 3 Years ago reangi · Accepted Answer

Run the script in your image directory. Make sure that destination doesn't have any sub directories.



IMG=100     # Number of images to move

DES="."     # Destination



I=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type f | wc -l)

N=$(( (I / IMG) + (I % IMG) ))

eval mkdir "$DES"/Folder{01..$N}



for i in $(find "$DES" -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | sort); do

    mv $(find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type f | sort | grep -m $IMG '.*') $i

done