Thanks for the quick response! I really appreciate it.
It did in fact work, and I must say will save me a lot of silly time.
I am starting to read a book on shell scripting, so this is an awesome little start to it. I am familiar with C++ and Java, but am obviously new to this.
For educational purposes, would you mind explaining what "i' represents in the code?
Cheers!
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Did the obvious editing necessary. One last question to make this script simply PERFECT!
If I wanted to take a group of folders on my Desktop and move all the content of those folders to the desktop (in a non organized fashion) how would I do that? Or if you can respond with guidance... I'm more then happy to continue the learning process.
Thanks again!
Code:
#!/bin/bash
for i in ~/Desktop/*.avi
do
mv "$i" /Volumes/Drobo/Movies
done
#!/bin/bash
for i in ~/Desktop/*.mp4
do
mv "$i" /Volumes/Drobo/Movies
done
for i in ~/Desktop/*.mp3
do
mv "$i" /Volumes/Drobo/iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized
done
echo "\nSCRIPT COMPLETE\n"
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gvfs-move
gvfs-move(1) User Commands gvfs-move(1)NAME
gvfs-move - move a file from one VFS location to another
SYNOPSIS
gvfs-move source-URI destination-URI
DESCRIPTION
gvfs-move moves a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
source-URI Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.
destination-URI Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Moving a File From a Web Server to a Local File
example%
gvfs-move http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.
EXIT STATUS
The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/gvfs-move Executable to move a file from one VFS location to another
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-gvfs |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1)gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1),
gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)NOTES
Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 25 Mar 2008 gvfs-move(1)
05-14-2012
