I have a large mp3 collection in one folder, i would like to organize them by artist, i found this script on the internet. http://blog.jardas.de/2005/07/13/mp3...rize-script-2/
It says if it doesnt work, to "concatenating lines ending with a backslash" I do not know how to do this, any help would great. thanks
this is the error message i am getting
"Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at -e line 2."


#!/bin/bash
find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec perl -e \
'$f=$a=$ARGV[0]; $a=~s/^\.\/(.*)\s+-\s+.*$/$1/;\
print \"$a\n\"; mkdir $a; rename($f, \"$a/$f\");' \
'{}' \;

This would be done in a text editor like gvim, emacs, kate, gedit or one of the many others. I've tried to list the graphical editors for just ease of use and reduction of explaining commands.

"concatenating the lines ending with a backslash" would basically be finding a line that ends in a "\" character, then removing that character and joining this line with the one below so that both are now just one line. Then you would look again for a line ending in a "\" and continue the process until there are no more lines ending with a "\".