Karl Cunningham wrote:
> 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.
for i in *.mp3; do dir=${i/ - *}; mkdir $dir; mv $i $dir; done
-john
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