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jali316
jali316

Reputation: 3

Move Files Specific Folder

I need bash script, these are my files:

./2019-01-11_15-00-29_UTC.mp4
./2019-02-10_17-42-18_UTC.mp4
./2019-01-03_14-45-43_UTC.mp4
./2018-12-24_13-00-32_UTC.mp4
./2018-12-09_19-50-59_UTC.mp4
./2019-01-11_14-51-08_UTC.mp4
./2019-01-06_16-41-54_UTC.mp4
./2019-02-03_10-33-33_UTC.mp4
./2019-02-16_18-21-30_UTC.mp4

wanna make two folder 2018 & 2019 then move files own folder. I use this code:

ls *.mp4 | awk -F"-" '{print $1}' | while read day file ; do mkdir -p "$day"; mv "$file" "$day"; done

It makes folder but not move

Upvotes: 0

Views: 95

Answers (2)

BlackPearl
BlackPearl

Reputation: 1662

You can use xargs to achieve this.

ls *.mp4 | xargs -I{} sh -c 'folder=`echo {} | cut -d"-" -f1`;mkdir -p $folder;mv {} $folder/'

Here, the entire file names are sent to xargs and, for each file the folder name is obtained using the cut command. Then the file is moved into the created folder.

More about xargs: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/xargs.1.html

Edited

for file in *.mp4 ; do
    date=$(echo $file | cut -d'_' -f1)
    year=$(echo $date | cut -d'-' -f1)
    month=$(echo $date | cut -d'-' -f2)
    day=$(echo $date | cut -d'-' -f3)
    mkdir -p $year/$month/$day
    mv $file $year/$month/$day/
done

Upvotes: 1

Paul Hodges
Paul Hodges

Reputation: 15418

Aren't you getting errors? When I run it I get

mv: cannot stat '': No such file or directory

once for each file. The reason is that file isn't being set in your loop.

ls *.mp4 | awk -F"-" '{print $1}'

Will generate a list of years

2018
2018
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019
2019

That's a single column of data.

while read day file

reads the year into day (day?) and since there's no more data, leaves file empty.

mkdir -p "$day"

works fine, but 

mv "$file" "$day"

evaluates to 

mv "" "2018"

Try this.

for f in *.mp4
do mkdir -p "${f%%-*}" && mv "$f" "${f%%-*}"
done

The ${f%%-*} just returns $f with everything from the first dash removed. The result:

$: find
.
./2018
./2018/2018-12-09_19-50-59_UTC.mp4
./2018/2018-12-24_13-00-32_UTC.mp4
./2019
./2019/2019-01-03_14-45-43_UTC.mp4
./2019/2019-01-06_16-41-54_UTC.mp4
./2019/2019-01-11_14-51-08_UTC.mp4
./2019/2019-01-11_15-00-29_UTC.mp4
./2019/2019-02-03_10-33-33_UTC.mp4
./2019/2019-02-10_17-42-18_UTC.mp4
./2019/2019-02-16_18-21-30_UTC.mp4

Upvotes: 2

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