BUCKETIZE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation BUCKETIZE(1)NAMEbucketize - Move files into buckets
SYNOPSISbucketize files ...
# Make buckets 100MB in size
bucketize-s 100m *.jpg
OPTIONS-s Set the bucket size
DESCRIPTION
"bucketize" takes a number of files and moves them into subdirectories
with limited size.
These subdirectories (buckets) are created on-the-fly, and named 001,
002, and so forth.
So, if you have 8 video files like
10570148 wienerschnitzel 02.avi
46988832 wienerschnitzel 03.avi
3609584 wienerschnitzel 04.avi
76198332 wienerschnitzel 05.avi
53203604 wienerschnitzel 06.avi
481153928 wienerschnitzel 07.avi
442000760 wienerschnitzel 08.avi
292597256 wienerschnitzel 09.avi
you can ask "bucketize" to put them in buckets not exceeding 1GB each:
$ bucketize-s 1g *.avi
In this case, "bucketize" will create the following directory
structure:
./001:
wienerschnitzel 02.avi wienerschnitzel 04.avi wienerschnitzel 06.avi
wienerschnitzel 03.avi wienerschnitzel 05.avi wienerschnitzel 07.avi
./002:
wienerschnitzel 08.avi wienerschnitzel 09.avi
It is an error if a numbered directory already exists, make sure you
start with a clean slate.
EXAMPLES
$ bucketize *.jpg
$ bucketize-s 2g *.jpg
LEGALESE
Copyright 2007 by Mike Schilli, all rights reserved. This program is
free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
2007, Mike Schilli <cpan@perlmeister.com>
perl v5.20.2 2012-03-05 BUCKETIZE(1)