I need make multiple folder having the name from file without extension with this command
for i in *.avi; do mkdir "${i%.*}"; done
I don't know how to mv the related file in the folder made...
Thanks for any help
Thanks. Let's say I want to do a general script to record on Textexpander which ask me for the file extension a sort of this :
echo "Type the suffix of the file follewe by enter:"
read ext
for i in *.ext
do
mkdir "${i%.ext}"
mv "$i" "${i%.ext}"
done
But this is not working.
Use the mv command:
for i in *.avi
do
mkdir "${i%.*}"
mv "$i" "${i%.*}"
done
Related
I am trying to make a photo organizer with a zsh shell script. But i am having trouble creating sub directories within each main directory(based on date). Currently the script starts from a folder i created and gets one argument(the file it needs to edit, hence the first cd $1). Secondly, i do some name changing which is irrelevant for my question. Next i create a directory for each date and move the photo to the correct directory.
The issue is, i want to loop through each date folder and make 2 new sub directories(jpg and raw). But when i run the code i get an error that there is no such file or directory..
Here is my current script:
#!/bin/zsh.
cd $1
for i in *.JPG;
do
mv $i $(basename $i .JPG).jpg;
done
for i in *;
do
d=$(date -r "$i" +%d-%m-%Y)
mkdir -p "$d"
mv -- "$i" "$d/";
done
for d in *;
do
cd $d
for i in *.jpg;
do
mkdir -p "jpg"
mv -- "$i" "jpg";
done
for i in *.NEF;
do
mkdir -p "raw"
mv -- "$i" "raw";
done
done
If anyone knows where i made a mistake that would be really helpfull since i have no clue what goes wrong and there is no debugger in nano as far as i know.
I am trying to rename a file which is the only file in a directory.
It is a podcast download which changes name each day so I don't know what it is called but it always ends in .MP3
I want to rename it to news.mp3
I have tried the following based on another solution on this site but it appends the news to the file
#!/bin/sh
for file in *.MP3; do
mv "$file" "${file/.MP3/news.mp3}"
done
If it's the only file in the directory you can just write the following command:
mv directory_name/* directory_name/news.mp3
In case there are few files or if dir is empty:
shopt -s nullglob
src="/path/to/dir/with/files"
dst="/destanation/folder"
i=1
cd "$src"
for f in *; do
mv "$f" "$dst/new_name_$((i++))"
done
I have a bunch of files that end with .EHZ and I am trying to create a folder for each of these files and then move them into the corresponding folders. Also the files have a Z attached to the name that I would like to remove. So ideally i would have, for example these files
AAAAZBBBBZ.EHZ
CCCCZDDDDZ.EHZ
EEEEZFFFFZ.EHZ
Turn into the folders
AAAABBBB
CCCCDDDD
EEEEFFFF
What I have written so far is
dir0=pwd
for file in `ls *.EHZ`
do
name=echo $file | head 10
mkdir -p $name
mv "$file" "$name"
done
P.S. I have found many answers in stackoverflow that were addressed to this issue but not on shell so I figured I would ask.
Could you please try following. I have used cp command for safer side in my code, you could remove it and put it as mv in there to actually move files to folders.
for file in *.EHZ
do
name="${file%.*}"
actual_directory_name="${name::-1}"
if [[ ! -d "$actual_directory_name" ]]
then
mkdir "$actual_directory_name"
fi
cp "$file" "$actual_directory_name"
if [[ -s "$actual_directory_name/$file" ]]
then
echo "$file is moved Successfully to directory name $actual_directory_name now.."
else
echo "Please check seems $file is NOT moved to directory $actual_directory_name."
fi
done
I am sure this is possible with a bash script, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something obvious. Google hasn't been much help, so maybe you can be.
Assume a directory has the following files
dir/file1
dir/newfile2
dir/oldfile3
I would like to figure out the best solution for copying all files in the folder to a folder 2 levels deep based on the first two letters of the filename, so the result would be
dir/f/i/file1
dir/n/e/newfile2
dir/o/l/oldfile3
Something like this should do it:
cd dir
for file in *; do
newpath="${file:0:1}/${file:1:1}"
mkdir -p "$newpath"
cp "$file" "$newpath"
done
Be sure all your filenames are two chars or more, though.
${var:n:m} is simply Bash syntax for "substring of var starting at n of length m."
If there can also be arbitrary subdirectories, either add -r to the cp command if you want to copy recursively or add a test to ignore directories in the for loop:
cd dir
for file in *; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
newpath="${file:0:1}/${file:1:1}"
mkdir -p "$newpath"
cp "$file" "$newpath"
fi
done
I have a HD full of directories named for CD albums which contain *.wav files.
I want a bash script that takes $1: mp3-squeeze kind_of_blue
and the script changes dir to "kind_of_blue",
creates a directory called $1_MP3 example: "kind_of_blue_MP3",
and lame outputs the mp3's to the newly created "kind_of_blue_MP3" directory.
Sadly, what I have creates "$album" not "kind_of_blue_MP3". Anyone have a solution?
#!/bin/bash
#to convert .wav to .mp3 using lame utility
album=$1
cd $album
mkdir -p '$album_MP3'
for i in *.wav ; do
echo $i
bname=`basename $i .wav`
lame --preset fast extreme $i $bname.mp3
done
mkdir mp3 && mv *.mp3 mp3
Wrong quotes. Plus, you have to end the variable name.
mkdir -p "${album}_MP3"