#!/bin/bash
# the below read command takes in a user command in the terminal in terms of a series of arguements
read -p "Good Morning, Please enter your file type name for sorting [ENTER]:" all_extensions
if cd /Users/christopherdorman/desktop
  then  while read extension
      do    destination="folder$extension"
# the mkdir creates new directories for the filetypes inputted in the terminal
        mkdir -p "$destination"
        mv  -v unsorted/*."$extension" "$destination"
      done   <<< "${all_extensions// /$'\n'}"
# the all extensions code focuses on everything else that has not been inputed in the command and looks to house these is a misc folder
        mkdir -p foldermisc 
        if mv  -v unsorted/* "foldermisc"
# the below echo confirms to the user back in the terminal that the processing of this is complete. 
      then  echo "Good News, the rest of Your files have been successfully processed"
        fi
# The below code creates a file list in each created directory and lists the files by size order. the cat file list creates a summary file on the desktop which details the files in each directory.
    for i in folder*/; do
        ls -S "$i" > "${i}filelist" 
        cat "${i}filelist" >> ~/desktop/summary.txt
	sort -r ~/desktop/summary.txt    
    done	
fi