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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move file in to directory- script Post 302925226 by Corona688 on Friday 14th of November 2014 04:15:08 PM
Old 11-14-2014
A rather more direct way -- have find print a list of files like

Code:
2014-01-02 /path/to/filename.png
2014-01-03 /path/to/anotherfile.png
...

...then read them into the shell to run with mv.

Code:
DEST=/path/to/

find /opt/camera/ -type f -printf '%TY%Tm%Td %p\n' |
while read -r DATE FILE
do
        [ -d "$DEST/$DATE" ] || mkdir -p "$DEST/$DATE"

        # Remove the 'echo' once you've tested and seen it does what you want.
        echo mv "$FILE" /path/to/$DATE/
done

I could make it more efficient, but the real inefficiency is going to be that one dir with 100,000 files, which there is absolutely no way to speed up... Each relink() has to lock and update that one huge folder.
Last edited by Corona688; 11-14-2014 at 05:22 PM..
 

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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

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