[rescue] [OT} shell help

[der Mouse]

> I have a file based gallery of aircraft, sorted by aircraft type.

> Now I decided that I'll do sorting by airline.
> I therefore need a smart solution that does this:

> for the loop; do symlinks
> 	from ./type/registration, *airline* *
> 	to ./Airlines/airline/type, registration *;
> done

I'm not entirely sure what it is you already have.  For example is
"type" a literal string, or does it represent a variable string?  What
about "registration"?  What do the things after the ,s mean - are those
contents of files, or files in directories, or what?

I might not use sed at all, here.  There's comparatively little string
processing being done.  I'd probably do something like

ls */* | tr / \  | while read type reg; do
	airline=`fgrep airline "$type/$reg" | awk '{print $2;}'`
	mkdir -p "Airlines/$airline/$type"
	ln -s ../../../"$type/$reg" "Airlines/$airline/$type/$reg"
done

though, of course, depending on the answers to the questions that
probably needs tweaking.

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