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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move file in to directory- script Post 302925220 by junior-helper on Friday 14th of November 2014 03:35:13 PM
Old 11-14-2014
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Originally Posted by primo102
any ideas ?
Yes, not a too efficient one though... Use it at your own risk. All commands are supposed to be run in the /mnt/upload directory.
A proper backup of those png files (with preserved modification timestamps) is highly recommended before attempting to perform the mass mv operation.

Code:
# get last modification date + filename
# sample output line: 2014-09-02 16:47:34.973268280 +0200 ./test.png
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.png' -exec stat -c '%y %n' {} + >temp1.txt

Code:
# cut + reformat last modification date from YYYY-MM-DD to YYYYMMDD, cut filename
# sample output line: 20140902,test.png,
sed 's/^\(....\)-\(..\)-\(..\).*\/\(.*\)$/\1\2\3,\4,/' temp1.txt | sort >temp2.txt

Code:
# create neccessary directories
cut -d, -f1 temp2.txt | uniq | xargs mkdir

Code:
# assembling and executing mv commands
# sample output line: mv "test.png" 20140902
# try without "| sh" first to see if the output is correct!
awk -F, '{ printf "mv \"%s\" %s\n", $2, $1 }' temp2.txt | sh

Code:
# deleting temp files
rm temp[12].txt

 

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