Trying to create directories based on file names

JackieBrown · 05-15-2009, 08:42 PM

I have everything in one large directory currently.

Example

movie.mkv
movie.tbn
movie.jpg

I want each to have it's own directory but there is a lot to manually do this.

I know I have done this before (actually, I used to do the opposite and delete based on parts of file names) but I am drawing a blank.

I am googling now, but wanted to post in case some one is quicker

rayfordj · 05-15-2009, 08:49 PM

there are various ways to implement. if all of your files are of the *.??? structure you could do something like:

Code:

for i in $(ls *.mkv); do BNAME=$(basename ${i} .mkv); mkdir ${BNAME} && mv ${BNAME}.* ${BNAME}/; done

from your example i suspect something like this might do it for you, but it really does depend on your file name structure, ...

JackieBrown · 05-15-2009, 09:04 PM

That looks good (I tried it on a jpg folder.)

basename is what I was missing (and I never would have thought of it. I was too focused on making grep work for this.)

Thanks

JackieBrown · 05-15-2009, 09:13 PM

Actually, it doesn't work with files with spaces in them.

I guess this makes sense since mkdir Hello World would create a directory Hello and a directory World.

What I would need is the equivalent of mkdir "Hello World"

I just rename the " " to "_"