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Göran R.
Göran R.

Reputation: 35

Move folder depending on foldername

So I have this idea of moving folders to different places depending on what the name of the source folder is.

I have came up with this little script, which does kind of work. It mismatches some names, and also it sometimes just straight up doesn't work.

script:

#!/bin/bash
for result in $(ls -d /path/to/folders/*/);
do
Size=${#result}
StripFrom=$(expr index "$result" 'S\b[0-9]\b')
Strip=4
Stripped=$(($StripFrom-$Strip))
EndStrip=$(($Size-$Stripped))
EndStrip=-$EndStrip
Serie=${result:23:$EndStrip}
mv $result /path/to/TV/$Serie/
done

What I'm trying to do:

I don't know if I'm going at this the wrong way all together.

23 is the number of characters in the path /path/to/folders/, by the way.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 92

Answers (2)

Wayne Vosberg
Wayne Vosberg

Reputation: 1053

Maybe to make things easier:

find /path/to/folders -name \*S[0-9]\* | while read $p
do
    result=$(basename "$p")
    SEASON=$(expr "$result" : '[[:print:]]\+\(S[[:digit:]]*\)')
    SHOW=$(expr "$result" : '\([[:print:]]\+\)S[[:digit:]]*') # with the trailing "."
    echo "show: $SHOW / season: $SEASON"
done

Upvotes: 0

Benjamin W.
Benjamin W.

Reputation: 52112

You can extract the series name with a regular expression:

regex='/([^/]*).S[[:digit:]]{2}[^/]*/$'

for dir in /path/to/folders/*/; do
    if [[ $dir =~ $regex ]]; then
        mv "$dir" /path/to/TV/"${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
    fi
done

The expression looks for S followed by two digits between the last two / of the path and captures everything between the second last / and the S, minus the character before the S.

For an example content of /path/to/folders/ of

folders
├── show1.S01E14.blahblah
├── show2.S11E01.text
└── unrelateddir

the commands issued are

mv /path/to/folders/show1.S01E14.blahblah/ /path/to/TV/show1
mv /path/to/folders/show2.S11E01.text/ /path/to/TV/show2

Remarks for your script:

  • You don't have to loop over the output of ls as in $(ls -d /path/to/folders/*/) (see here why that isn't a good idea in general), you can use the glob directly.
  • Not entirely sure about this one, but S\b[0-9]\b would fail to match and S followed by two digits, as there is no word boundary between the digits.
  • In arithmetic expansion, you don't need the $ signs: Stripped=$(($StripFrom-$Strip)) can be written Stripped=$(( StripFrom - Strip )).

Upvotes: 1

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