Copy folder based on group membership

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October 8, 2007 at 3:47 pm #370143

Bwilsor
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I have to sort 1400+ user home folders into sub folders. Is there a way to do this based on the users group membership? I am trying to avoid picking them out one by one and moving them into the new nested home folder.

October 8, 2007 at 6:38 pm #370144
PhillyMJS
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Assuming you’ve got Open Directory going, you’d do something like this to get a list of users in the group ‘mygroup’:
```
dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read /Groups/mygroup GroupMembership
```
You’ll get output like this:
```
GroupMembership: user1 user2 user3 user4
```
So you’d just need to parse that output to get the individual usernames and do an mv on each username to plunk their user folder into the correct new location.

HTH,

~Philly
October 10, 2007 at 2:00 pm #370165

Bwilsor
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Thanks for the ideas! I am going the parsing route o move the folders.

October 10, 2007 at 7:10 pm #370169

Magus255
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You could list the directory and then pipe it though grep to filter out unwanted stuff then us awk to call mv with the proper fields.

ls -l | grep somefilter | awk ‘{system(“mv ” $9 ” ” $4 “/”)}’

$9 ends up being file name and $4 is the group ownership from the permissions.
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