如何删除目录中的前 50 个目录 linux bash

Question

I am looking to run a script which moves 50 directories to a new directory, once it has carried out that action it then deletes those 50 from the original directory

I have the below so far in my bash script:

cd /folder1/subfolder1/directories

mv `ls | head -50` ../subfolder2/

Answer 1

cd /folder1/subfolder1/directories
dirs=( ./*/ )                            # an array of directories
mv -t ../subfolder2/ "${dirs[@]:0:50}"   # first 50 array elements

For GNU coreutils mv , -t is the "target" (aka, destination) directory. This can be very handy if there are hundreds/thousands of files to move (more than can fit in one command):

some-process-that-produces-filenames-on-stdout | xargs mv -t dest_dir/