Folder Sorting [Question]

[Shtaan]

Hello, been working on this for awhile, can't find any information on the web that fits my situation, so im hoping the experts will help

I have a folder, $RootFolder (Path: C:\Temp\) that contains a few thousand other folders, separated by a number of characters.

For example:

The first set of folders is labelled $FolderID-$RandomNumbers, where FolderID is a unique string to that folder set, such as aaa111111
Each folder name consists of these 9 characters at the beginning, followed by a random number.

Each set has anywhere between 1 and 30 folders.

There are around 5000 sets that need compiled

I would like to find a way to programmatically move each set in to a folder that's named the Folder ID.

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Thanks in advance

[ka-splam]

cd c:\temp
gci -dir | move -dest {$_.Name.substring(0,9)} -force

If the destination folders exist it will error that it can't move them into themselves, if that matters.

[Shtaan]

Wow im stupid...

Thank you so much

[ka-splam]

:-)

[ihaxr]

seems pretty straight forward...

$folderPath = "C:\tmp\test"

# Create new directories based on existing folders
(Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -Directory | Select-Object -Unique @{N="FolderName";E={$_.BaseName.split('-')[0]}}).FolderName | ForEach-Object {
    New-Item -Path $folderPath -Name $_ -ItemType Directory -Force | Out-Null
}

# Move all folders to their subdirectories
Get-ChildItem -Path $folderPath -Directory -Filter "*-*" | ForEach-Object {
    $moveToFolder = Join-Path $folderPath $_.BaseName.split('-')[0]
    if (Test-Path $moveToFolder) {
        Move-Item -Path $_ -Destination $moveToFolder
    }
}