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09-06-2013

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Cragun

Am I correct in interpreting your requirements to be:

You are sitting in a directory that contains both regular files and directories.
You do not want to do anything with any files in directories under the directory in which you're sitting.
You want to move regular files that have a file extension (such as .flc, .mkv, .avi, .mpg, or anything else) into a new directory. (It isn't clear to me whether you want to move a regular file like "movie.mkv" to "movie.mkv/movie.mkv" or to move it to "movie/movie.mkv". Which do you want?)
You do not want to move (or remove) regular files that do not have a file extension.

Is this correct? (And, if so, do you want new directory names to have the extension stripped off from the names of the files that will be moved to them?)

Sir,
despite my wobbly English you have understood everything !!!! :-)

The files to be moved into a newly created directory should belong only to a defined set of extension. All other extensions should be ignored (for example move.txt will remain where it is).

What I need is the newly created directory to be stripped of the file extension (which luckily appears always to be a dot followed by 3 letters).

This should also cover the theoretical case (I do not seem to have any) of two regular files with the same name but two different extensions (e.g. movie5.mkv and movie5.avi and they should both end up in the same movie5 directory).

I tried whipping up a find command to address the generation of the file list but I am under the impression that the command behaves DIFFERENTLY on Debian and on Mac OS (the two Unices I'm using) :-(

Thanks so much for trying to help.

---------- Post updated at 10:47 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:17 AM ----------

I tried starting this script and have gone somewhere although still not want I want:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 | while read FILE
do
    DIR=$(echo $FILE | sed 's/\....$//')
    if [ ! -d "$DIR" ]
    then
                echo mkdir "$DIR"
    fi
    echo mv "$FILE" "$DIR"
done

It's not creating the directory if for example the file contains spaces, and therefore the mkdir fails

It's not selecting only the desired extensions

Ciao !

Last edited by rjalex; 09-06-2013 at 04:25 AM.. Reason: tried to express myself better

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