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    Maybe not worth posting it as an answer, but here is the idea (I am aware of the duplicate directory names being shown but -p flag does take care of that). So shopt -s nullglob; gz=( *.gz ); for f in "${gz[@]}"; do tmp="${f%%[0-9]*}"; mkdir -p "$tmp"; mv -- "$f" "$tmp"; done Commented Nov 9, 2021 at 8:59