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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Batch file to move video files and retain sub-directories Post 302522316 by mm0mss on Saturday 14th of May 2011 10:30:08 AM
Old 05-14-2011
Batch file to move video files and retain sub-directories

I have just purchased my first ever Apple computer - and am therefore new to UNIX also.

I would like to create a simple "batch file" (apologies if this is the wrong terminology) to do the following:

When I plug my camera into the MAC it automatically downloads photos and videos into a new sub-directory inside the "Pictures" folder, the new folder name is the date on which the photos were taken.
eg,
Pictures\2011-04-28

The problem is it puts both photos (jpg) and videos (avi) into this folder. I want to separate the photos from the videos.

I need a script which will move the videos to a new folder inside "Movies" but retains the date based sub-directory name.
eg,
Movies\2011-04-28

I hope this makes sense!

Thanks in advance.
 

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CHEESE(1)							   User Commands							 CHEESE(1)

NAME
cheese - tool to take pictures and videos from your webcam SYNOPSIS
cheese [option...] DESCRIPTION
cheese uses your webcam to take photos and videos, applies fancy special effects and lets you share the fun with others. It was written as part of Google's 2007 Summer of Code lead by daniel g. siegel and mentored by Raphael Slinckx. Under the hood, Cheese uses GStreamer to apply fancy effects to photos and videos. With Cheese it is easy to take photos of you, your friends, pets or whatever you want and share them with others. After the success of the Summer of Code, the development continued and we are still looking for people with nice ideas and patches ;) INVOCATION
cheese takes a list of options as arguments. Options --wide, -w Start in wide mode, with the thumbnails to the right of the video preview. --device=DEVICE, -d DEVICE Use the supplied DEVICE as the video capture device. --fullscreen, -f Start in fullscreen mode. --help, -h Print brief help and exit. --version, -v Print the version and exit. SEE ALSO
Cheese help manual AUTHOR
cheese was written by Daniel G. Siegel <dgsiegel@gnome.org>, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap@haitsma.org>, Filippo Argiolas <fargiolas@gnome.org>, Yuvaraj Pandian T <yuvipanda@yuvi.in>, Luciana Fujii Pontello <luciana@fujii.eti.br> and David King <amigadave@amigadave.com>. This manual page was written by David King <amigadave@amigadave.com>. Cheese 3.8.2 06/10/2014 CHEESE(1)
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