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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash and Awk for creating directories and moving files Post 302218264 by Kiint on Thursday 24th of July 2008 09:35:49 PM
Old 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 Smilie

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

 

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