[SOLVED] moving files to their respective folders using bash scripting

Issue

I have files in this format:

2022-03-5344-REQUEST.jpg
2022-03-5344-IMAGE.jpg
2022-03-5344-00imgtest.jpg
2022-03-5344-anotherone.JPG
2022-03-5343-kdijffj.JPG
2022-03-5343-zslkjfs.jpg
2022-03-5343-myimage-2010.jpg
2022-03-5343-anotherone.png
2022-03-5342-ebee5654.jpeg
2022-03-5342-dec.jpg
2022-03-5341-att.jpg
2022-03-5341-timephoto_december.jpeg
....

about 13k images like these.

I want to create folders like:

2022-03-5344/
2022-03-5343/
2022-03-5342/
2022-03-5341/
....

I started manually moving them like:

mkdir name
mv name-* name/

But of course I'm not gonna repeat this process for 13k files.

So I want to do this using bash scripting, and since I am new to bash, and I am working on a production environment, I want to play it safe, but it doesn't give me my results. This is what I did so far:

#!/bin/bash

name = $1

mkdir "$name"

mv "${name}-*" $name/

and all I can do is: ./move.sh name for every folder, I didn't know how to automate this using loops.

Solution

With bash and a regex. I assume that the files are all in the current directory.

for name in *; do
  if [[ "$name" =~ (^....-..-....)- ]]; then
    dir="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}";    # dir contains 2022-03-5344, e.g.
    echo mkdir -p "$dir" || exit 1;
    echo mv -v "$name" "$dir";
  fi;
done

If output looks okay, remove both echo.

Answered By - Cyrus

Answer Checked By - Robin (WPSolving Admin)