I have several thousand ebooks that need to be organized on a headless linux server running bash through SSH. All of the ebooks are thankfully named with one of 2 conventions.
- AuthorFirstName AuthorLastName - Book Title.pdf
- AuthorFirstName AuthorLastName - Book Series #inSeries - Book Title.pdf
What I would like to do is to move all of the books into an organized system such as:
`DestinationDirectory/FirstLetterOfAuthorFirstName/Author Full Name/pdf's` e.g. the following books
Andrew Weiner - Changes.pdf Allan Cole - Timura Trilogy 01 - When the Gods Slept.pdf should be placed in the following folders
/books/A/Allan Cole/Allan Cole - Timura Trilogy 01 - When the Gods Slept.pdf /books/A/Andrew Weiner/Andrew Weiner - Changes.pdf I need help with how to put this all into a bash script that will grab the filenames of all the PDF files in the current directory, and then move the files to the proper directory, creating the directory if it doesn't already exist.
4 Answers
for f in *.pdf; do name=`echo "$f"|sed 's/ -.*//'` letter=`echo "$name"|cut -c1` dir="DestinationDirectory/$letter/$name" mkdir -p "$dir" mv "$f" "$dir" done Actually found a different way of doing it, just thought I'd post this for others to see/use if they would like.
#!/bin/bash dir="/books" if [[ `ls | grep -c pdf` == 0 ]] then echo "NO PDF FILES" else for src in *.pdf do author=${src%%-*} authorlength=$((${#author}-1)) letter=${author:0:1} author=${author:0:$authorlength} mkdir -p "$dir/$letter/$author" mv -u "$src" "$dir/$letter/$author" done fi @OP you can do it with just bash
dest="/tmp" OFS=$IFS IFS="-" for f in *.pdf do base=${f%.pdf} letter=${base:0:1} set -- $base fullname=$1 pdfname=$2 directory="$dest/$letter/$fullname" mkdir -p $directory cp "$f" $directory done IFS=$OFS for i in *.pdf; do dir=$(echo "$i" | \ sed 's/\(.\)\([^ ]\+\) \([^ ]\+\) - \(.*\)\.pdf/\1\/\1\2 \3/') dir="DestinationDirectory/$dir" mkdir -p -- "$dir" && mv -uv "$i" "$dir/$i" done
