I was trying to be 'smart', too many 'short circuit' make me short circuit too.
it should look like this:
Code:
for i in *.jpg
do
# yy is $1, mm is $2, dd is $3, hh is $4
set -- `echo $i | sed -e 's/\([0-9][0-9]\)/\1 /g'`
dir="$1/$2/$3/$4"
[ ! -d $dir ] && mkdir -p $dir
mv $i $dir
done
You may even want to ensure *.jpg to be your patten by:
Code:
for i in [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9].jpg
do
...
Not sure whether bash has a more elegant way to pick up your files in the for loop, but the above [0-9]... should definitely work for sh.
As for danmero contribution, I couldn't get it working in Solaris bash
Code:
$ i=090807060504.jpg
$ d=${i:0:8}
bad substitution
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ uname -a
SunOS chihung 5.10 Generic_118833-36 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine
In cygwin, although it does not throw exception, the variable d is equivalent to extracting the first 8 digits. We still need to turn that into directory path before we can make the hierarchical tree structure
Code:
$ i=090807060504.jpg
$ d=${i:0:8}
$ echo $d
09080706
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 chihung 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21 i686 Cygwin
Danmero, did I miss anything
