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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash and Awk for creating directories and moving files Post 302218260 by Kiint on Thursday 24th of July 2008 08:57:42 PM
Old 07-24-2008
What I have so far, that I imagine should work (but doesnt) is (and isnt very elegant or sane)

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for file in *.jpg; do

set yy = `echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[1]a[2]}'`
set mm = `echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[3]a[4]}'`
set dd = `echo $file | awk '{split($0,a,""); print a[5]a[6]}'`
set 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/$file
                        elif
                                mkdir $yy/$mm/$dd/$hh
                                exit 1
                        fi
                elif
                        mkdir $yy/$mm/$dd
                        exit 1
                fi
        elif
                mkdir $yy/$mm
                exit 1
        fi
elif
        mkdir $yy
        exit 1
fi

done

 

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MKDIR(1)							   User Commands							  MKDIR(1)

NAME

       mkdir - make directories

SYNOPSIS

       mkdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY...

DESCRIPTION

       Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -m, --mode=MODE
	      set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask

       -p, --parents
	      no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

       -v, --verbose
	      print a message for each created directory

       -Z, --context[=CTX]
	      set the SELinux security context of each created directory to default type or to CTX if specified

       --help display this help and exit

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