Re: [MacPerl] a little help

[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

> Hi.  Can someone show me a bit of code that would split up a Macintosh
> folder that has thousands of files in it, into lots of individual folders
> that have only a 100 files each?  In other words, one folder with 1000
> items would become 10 folders with 100 items each.

You don't say on what basis you wish to make the split.  A brute-force
method would impose an arbitrary limit (e.g., 100) and create new folders
(e.g., f01, f02, ...) as needed.  You may have some second-order require-
ments, however, that could complicate the problem.  For instance, it might
be appropriate to break the files up into ranges, based on the initial
character.  This isn't that much harder, but it could save you some pain
after you make the split...  Finally, how many "thousands" of files do
you have?  This could affect your decisions (e.g., whether to use f01 or
f001 :-)...

-r

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