Bash and Awk for creating directories and moving files - Page 2

Kiint · #1 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008

Well, its working (for those out there that stumble across this site for a similar script)

Its not elegant, sane or other ... but it works.

If the better experienced here can clean it up and solve the elegant/sane issues then it would be great

Code:

#!/bin/bash -x

for file in *.jpg; do

YY=`echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[1]a[2]}'`
MM=`echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[3]a[4]}'`
DD=`echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[5]a[6]}'`
HH=`echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[7]a[8]}'`

if [ -d $YY ]
then
        if [ -d $YY/$MM ]
        then
                if [ -d $YY/$MM/$DD ]
                then
                        if [ -d $YY/$MM/$DD/$HH ]
                        then
                                mv $YY$MM$DD$HH*.jpg $YY/$MM/$DD/$HH
                        else
                                mkdir $YY/$MM/$DD/$HH
                        fi
                else
                        mkdir $YY/$MM/$DD
                fi
        else
                mkdir $YY/$MM
        fi
else
        mkdir $YY
fi

done

danmero · #2 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008

Shorther:

Code:

for i in *.jpg;do d=${i:0:8};test -d $d || mkdir $d ;mv $i $d;done

Kiint · #3 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by danmero

Shorther:

Code:

for i in *.jpg;do d=${i:0:8};test -d $d || mkdir $d ;mv $i $d;done

Awesome single line version, perfect except the lack of nested directories.

Instead of a single directory 08072511 I need them nested like

>08
->07
-->25
--->11

Ygor · #4 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008

Try...

Code:

for i in *.jpg; do d=$(echo $i|cut -c-8|fold -2|paste -s -d /); mkdir -p $d; mv $i $d; done

danmero · #5 (**permalink**) 07-24-2008

Ops, fast reading

Code:

for i in *.jpg;do d=.$(sed 's/\(..\)/\/\1/g' <<< ${i:0:8});test -d $d || mkdir -p $d ;mv $i $d;done

@chihung

Code:

$ uname -a
Linux test 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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