hey,
i have a car stereo that reads a USB drive with all my music on it, however to sort through the music it uses a method of finding folders containing music, then displaying them all in a list.

i find this interface annoying because in order to sort the music by artist i have to go and manually move it out of the album folders by hand, this takes a long time for 11+ GB of music so i was trying to use the linux CLI to quicken the process.

my thoughts were to use a command like this

but for some reason this moves all my music into the last folder alphabetically in my drive, could someone help me to make this all work?

the music is all pre-arranged like this /media/usb/music/artist/album/song

you got the expected outcome of that command line.



not tested,it should be /media/usb/music/artist/song after that.

hey, could you please break that down for me and explain what each part does and how it works?

for $in in { ls -d /media/usb/music/* } do

i defined $i in output of ls -d /media/usb/music/* (which outputs only folders in /media/usb/music/). because this is a for loop, mv /media/usb/music/$1/*/* /media/usb/$1/ will be run every $1's value.

thankyou, i just couldnt see where $i was defined, thankyou for that

$i comes from the for loop