Creating directory with partial filename

[Tyler Thorsted]

Hello,

I am new to parallel and didn't see in the manual a way to use a portion of a filename in creating a folder to move files into after processing.

I am using ImageMagick to convert images to another format and my naming convention for files is static up until the last 6 characters, which are unique to each image.

I would like to create a directory via the script to create a folder with the static portion of the filename and process all the images with that static portion to the that folder.

ie. 

M1234_b0000_f0001_00001.tif

M1234_b0000_f0001_00002.tif

M1234_b0000_f0001_00003.tif

M1234_b0000_f0001_00004.tif

all jpg images would process to a directory named M1234_b0000_f0001

and

M1234_b0000_f0002_00001.tif

M1234_b0000_f0002_00002.tif

M1234_b0000_f0002_00003.tif

M1234_b0000_f0002_00004.tif

all jpg images would process to M1234_b0000_f0002

I have used the regex "s/.\{6\}$//" in other scripts to get the folder name, but how do I use it in parallel.

Thanks.

Tyler Thorsted

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