Help - Using Auto. to move/copy/sort jpegs saved on desktop to folders

Question

I have, daily, between 20 and 100 images saved on my desktop (mostly net images). I apply Spotlight comments to each of them, based on a dozen categories.
What I want Automator to do, is to look at all of the jpeg/jpgs on my Desktop, read the Spotlight comments, and place a COPY of each in a specified folder. (I don't mind running it 12 times)
So, there are 100 images, 40 have the Spotlight comment "Apple" - I want Automator to look at the 100, find the 40 that have "Apple" and place a copy of each image into a Folder in my Pictures category called "Apple Images".
PowerMac G5 2x2 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Answer 1

This will do it if you perform the action immediately after the file is selected (if not, just save the filename to an Automator variable, then get the variable before the action).
In Run Shell Script, you must: Pass input [as arguments]
The Run Shell Script Action is:
n=${1##*_}
n=${n%%-*}
if [ ! -d "$HOME/Desktop/$n" ]; then
  mkdir "$HOME/Desktop/$n"
fi
mv "$1" "$HOME/Desktop/$n"
Note: With this, you do not need the Action you used to "strip out the prefix of Schedule_ or MDAlarm_" as n=${1##*_} strips everything before: _ and n=${n%%-*} after: -