Move half of the files to one directory

file-splitter.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Check if the correct number of arguments is provided
if [ "$#" -ne 3 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 <source_directory> <destination1> <destination2>"
    exit 1
fi

# Assign arguments to variables
source_dir="$1"
dest_dir1="$2"
dest_dir2="$3"

# Check if source directory exists
if [ ! -d "$source_dir" ]; then
    echo "Error: Source directory does not exist"
    exit 1
fi

# Create destination directories if they don't exist
mkdir -p "$dest_dir1" "$dest_dir2"

# Get the total number of files
total_files=$(find "$source_dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l)
half_files=$((total_files / 2))

# Create a sorted list of all files
sorted_files=$(find "$source_dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort)

# Move the first half of the files to destination1
echo "$sorted_files" | head -n "$half_files" | while read -r file; do
    mv "$file" "$dest_dir1"
    echo "Moved to $dest_dir1: $file"
done

# Move the remaining files to destination2
echo "$sorted_files" | tail -n +"$((half_files + 1))" | while read -r file; do
    mv "$file" "$dest_dir2"
    echo "Moved to $dest_dir2: $file"
done

echo "Files have been split between $dest_dir1 and $dest_dir2"