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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Moving Files Automatically Post 302640415 by glev2005 on Monday 14th of May 2012 05:53:35 PM
Old 05-14-2012
Kind of a simple approach, assumes you know how to save a bash shell script and make it executable, and to run it.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in ~/Downloads/*.avi
do
mv "$i" ~/Movies
done

for i in ~/Downloads/*.mp4
do
mv "$i" ~/Movies
done

for i in ~/Downloads/*.mp3
do
mv "$i" ~/Music
done

---------- Post updated at 05:53 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:51 PM ----------

Basically, save the code to a text file on your desktop named Whatever.sh

Open Terminal and do: chmod +x ~/Desktop/Whatever.sh

To run it in Terminal: sh ~/Desktop/Whatever.sh
 

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chronicle-spooler

CHRONICLE-SPOOLER(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      CHRONICLE-SPOOLER(1)

NAME

       chronicle-spooler - Automatically post pre-written entries.

SYNOPSIS

	 Path Options:

	  --config	   Specify a configuration file to read.
	  --spool-dir	   Specify where pending entries are located.
	  --live-dir	   Specify where the entries should be moved to.

	 Post-Spool Commands:

	  --post-move	Specify a command to execute once entries have been moved.

	 Optional Features:

	  --test	Only report on what would be executed.

	 Help Options:

	  --help	Show the help information for this script.
	  --manual	Read the manual for this script.

ABOUT

	 chronicle-spooler is a companion scrip to the chronicle blog compiler.

	 It is designed to facilitate posting new entries automatically upon
	particular dates.  (ie. If you have ten written blog entries in a spool
	directory it will move them into place upon the date you've specified.)

DATE SPECIFICATION

	 To specify the date a particular entry should be made live you
	must add another pseudo-header to your blog entry files, as follows:

	   Title:  This is the title of the blog post
	   Date:  2nd March 2007
	   Publish: 15th April 2008
	   Tags: one, two, three, long tag

	   The text of your entry goes here.

	 In this example we know that this entry will be made live upon the
	15th April 2008, and not before.

AUTHOR

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LICENSE

       Copyright (c) 2008-2010 by Steve Kemp.  All rights reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  The LICENSE file contains the
       full text of the license.

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