Need help with moving file ranges

[loki126]

I know this may be the wrong forum to post this in, but I really have no idea where else to post. I have a huge project which is quite simple to complete but will be extremely time-consuming. I have over 800,000 files and all files are named in numeric order. I have a list of over 1,000 ranges and I need to place the files corresponding to each range into its own folder which is named the beginning range. To better illustrate:

I have the Ranges-
000001-000009
000010-000013
000014-000015
etc...

Let's take the first range, 000001-000009. I have to create a folder and name the folder "000001". Then I need to place the files from 000001 through 000009 into the folder.

Again, I have over 1,000 of these ranges to do. I was wondering if there is any software or anything out there that completes this project for me?

Thank you VERY much for your help

 

[johnherman]

This looks fairly easy to do in Unix - see the Unix Scripting forum forum822.

If windows, try posting in the Unix forum and downloading free unix utilities for windows to finish the job.

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