Shell Tool – How to Tablify Input Data

Do you mean jot?

$ jot 
jot: jot - print sequential or random data
usage:  jot [ options ] [ reps [ begin [ end [ s ] ] ] ]
Options:
    -r      random data
    -c      character data
    -n      no final newline
    -b word     repeated word
    -w word     context word
    -s string   data separator
    -p precision    number of characters

If you use Ubuntu the package is athena-jot. A simple example:

$ jot -r 10 12 27
26
13
22
18
25
12
13
23
15
23

Bye.

Try something like this:

#! /bin/bash

# Config variable(s)
ParentFolder="~/FilingCab"

# arg processing (minimalist :)
FileToMove="$1"

# use sed to extract folder number from filename.
FolderNo=$(echo "$FileToMove" | sed -r -e 's/.*zz([0-9]+)\.pdf/\1/')

# use find to search for subdirectories of parent folder that begin
# with the folder no followed by a '.'
TargetFolder=$(find "$ParentFolder" -maxdepth 1 -type -a -d -name "${FolderNo}.*")

NumFolders=$(echo "$TargetFolder" | wc -l)

if [ "$NumFolders" -eq 1 ] ; then 
 mv "$ParentFolder/$FileToMove" "$TargetFolder/" 
else
  echo "Error: $NumFolders beginning with "$FolderNo." found" >&2
  exit 1
fi

Note the double-quotes around all the variable names. It's always the safe/correct thing to do but in your case it's essential because the filenames and directory names you gave as examples have space characters in them.

The -maxdepth 1 in the find command only searches for direct subdirectories of $ParentFolder (i.e. ignores subdirs of subdirs). If that's not what you meant, just remove that part. This find searches for any subdirectories of $ParentFolder that begin with $FolderNo.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "if TargetFolder is not equal to not empty", i'm assuming you meant "is the string $TargetFolder non-empty". Ordinarily, I'd check if $TargetFolder existed and was a directory but since we're getting the directory name from a find -type d, it can only be empty or a directory. or maybe more if there's more than one beginning with "$FolderNo."

I think it's better to check if we get one and exactly one result from the find. Any other value is an error, and we can't move the file. 0 means no matching folders found. 2 or more means more than one folder beginning with "$FolderNo." was found.

The warning msg to stderr is optional. so is the exit 1, but recommended. It allows you to call this script from another script and check whether it was successful or not.