Krdytkyu

I have a series of sub-directories, all in one parent-directory, each titled like such:

• StringA (Date1) StringW [String10]




• StringB (Date2) StringX [String11]




• StringB (Date3) StringY [String12]




• StringC (Date4) StringZ [String13]

I also have a different folder full of subdirectories, one for each unique string to lead the title of a subdirectory from the prior list. Proceeding from the above example, it would go:

• StringA




• StringB




• StringC

Is there a workable means of moving each extended-title sub-directory into the short-titled sub-directory that matches its leading string?

For clarity, my desired result would be folders nested in the following order:

• StringA/StringA (Date1) StringW [String10]




• StringB/StringB (Date2) StringX [String11]




• StringB/StringB (Date3) StringY [String12]




• StringC/StringC (Date4) StringZ [String13]

Try following script

foo="/path/to/folder/containing/short-titled-directories"

bar="/path/to/folder/containing/extended-titled-directories"



for subdir in $foo/*

do

    if [[ -d "$subdir" ]]

    then

        folder_to_move=$(ls $bar | grep "$subdir")

        mv "$bar/$folder_to_move" "$subdir/$folder_to_move"

    fi

done