Sort files into folders by extension

November 13, 2016 0 comments Article Coding

cd /path/to/dir

shopt -s nullglob
for file in *.{avi,rmvb,mkv}
do
  directory="${file%.*}"             # remove file extension 
  directory="${directory//_/ }"      # replace underscores with spaces

  darr=( $directory )
  darr="${darr[@]^}"                 # capitalize the directory name

  echo mkdir -p -- "$darr"           # create the directory; 
  echo mv -b -- "$file" "$darr"      # move the file to the directory
  echo
done

cd /path/to/dir

shopt -s nullglob

for file in *.{avi,rmvb,mkv}

directory="${file%.*}" # remove file extension

directory="${directory//_/ }" # replace underscores with spaces

darr=( $directory )

darr="${darr[@]^}" # capitalize the directory name

echo mkdir -p -- "$darr" # create the directory;

echo mv -b -- "$file" "$darr" # move the file to the directory

echo

done

Sort files into folders by extension

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