Copy folder based on group membership

[Bwilsor]

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.

[PhillyMJS]

Assuming you’ve got Open Directory going, you’d do something like this to get a list of users in the group ‘mygroup’:
[code]dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -read /Groups/mygroup GroupMembership[/code]
You’ll get output like this:
[code]GroupMembership: user1 user2 user3 user4[/code]
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

[Bwilsor]

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

[Magus255]

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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