[SOLVED] Need help with simple a script.

Question

Hello, Iam searching for a small script that sorts my folders in alphabetical order.
I want the script to create folder from A to Z and then move every folder that begins with A into the A folder etc etc..
I really hope anyone understands what im searching for here.
Last edited by nikihr (2009-09-01 20:25:33)

Answer 1

scragar wrote:
brisbin33 wrote:
be careful, mv $I* will pick up your freshly created directory too;
i'd `mkdir ./sorted/$I` instead, then `mv ./sorted/* ./ && rm -r ./sorted` at the end.
you could also use
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -iname "$I*" -exec mv {} ./sorted/ \;
to do the actual move*
*note: untested .
While my `mv` code will throw an error the error will not stop the moving of the files, you'll just get 26 messages about being unable to move the directory to itself. I could probably find a way to avoid this that doesn't require the use of find(which I personally dislike) or a second dir, probably just using a file prefix like "_" or something. It would only be a small edit:
#!/bin/bash
for I in {a..z}; do
echo "Moving $I";
mkdir "_$I";
echo "mv $I* \"$(echo $I | tr [:lower:] [:upper:])\"* _$I/";
# mv $I* "$(echo $I | tr [:lower:] [:upper:])"* "_$I/";
mv "_$I" $I
done
well, i have to politely disagree:  one, invoking find once is much better IMHO than mv with tr in a subshell.  and two, my ./sorted/ idea adds one additional mv command and one additional rm command where you're _$I suggestion added 26 additional mv commands....  just sayin'
but we could also paint the bikeshed blue. .
anyways, i think the OP's got more than he bargained for, hopefully we'll see a [SOLVED] on this one soon.