begin quoting Karl Cunningham as of Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 10:40:29AM -0800:
> I'm trying to write a bash script to distribute some music files from
> one directory to various subdirectories based a correlation between the
> file and directory names. The files are mp3s and almost all contain
> spaces in the filenames. The filenames are of the form:
>
> artist - title.mp3
>
> The directories are named to correspond to the artist names. For each
> directory found the script should move all mp3 files that start with the
> same text as the directory name into the corresponding directory. For
> instance, a file named 'Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues.mp3'
> should get moved into the './Bob Dylan' directory. I tried the
> following but everything winds up in the root directory. Any help is
> appreciated.
>
> # Get the list of directories
> find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | sed -e 's/^\.\/*//' | while read dirname
you might have better luck with:
sed -e'/^\.$/d' -e's:^\./::'
> do
> # Move any matching files into the directory
> find . -iname "${dirname}*.mp3" -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec mv "{}"
> "${dirname}/" \;
> done
The second use of find may be overkill. So long as you don't have any
directories with a suffix of .mp3, "mv ${dirname}*.mp3 ${dirname}/"
should do the same trick.
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