I have a folder called folder1 that has a bunch of pictures in it, and I would like to save each picture in an individual folder. The folder should have the same name as the file, for example if the picture is called "st123" I would like to create a folder called "st123" and move the picture into the folder. I have tried the following, but I get the error cannot move to a subdirectory of itself. Is there another way to solve this? Otherwise, would it be possible to save the image "st123" in a folder called "123" (so the last 3 characters)?
#!/bin/bash
Parent="/home/me/myfiles/folder1"
for file in $Parent; do
dir="${file%%.*}"
mkdir -p "$dir"
mv "$file" "$dir"
done
This solution might be useful to you, though if you'd like to iterate over the images recursively I suggest you to use find. If that's indeed the case, let me know and I'll edit this answer with relevant code.
for image in /home/me/myfiles/folder1/*; do
if [[ -f $image ]]; then
newf="${image%%?([ab]).*}"
mkdir -p "$newf"
mv -- "$image" "$newf"
fi
done
Test ( extglob is enabled ):
$ [/home/rany/] touch test/st123a.tif test/st123b.tif test/st456.jpg test/st456b.jpg test/st789.tif
$ [/home/rany/] for image in test/*; do newf="${image%%?([ab]).*}"; mkdir -p "$newf"; mv -- "$image" "$newf";done
$ [/home/rany/] tree test
test
├── st123
│ ├── st123a.tif
│ └── st123b.tif
├── st456
│ ├── st456b.jpg
│ └── st456.jpg
└── st789
└── st789.tif
3 directories, 5 files
According to OP request I added the following changes:
a or b, so that, for example, file names st123a.ext and st123b.ext will go to the same directory st123. Important: this feature requires extglob enabled ( i.e. shopt -s extglob ).