[SOLVED] Shell script to move photos into folders with date YYYYMMDD

Issue

I have an IP camera that sends a photo every minute to a folder on a PC (Linux) with (mv *20150501* 20150501).

Where the camera sends the following filename:

Schedule_20150501-103642.jpg

I would like to make a shell script that:

• Looks into the file name for the date in the format YYYYMMDD. Create a folder with that number if it doesn't exist and move all files containing this number into this folder.
• Checks in each folder if there is an .MP4 file. If not, execute this script that produces a time-lapse video from the images:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=12:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=7000 -oac copy -o Zeitraffer`**20150501**.mp4

Base folder is: snap

Sub folder: snap/(date +%YYYY%mm%dd)

Until now, I do all that manually and separately using mv. Then I move into the folders and modify the script for the time lapse. :-(

Until now, I have a script to make at least a bulk of folders by date:

#!/bin/bash

read -p "Geben Sie den ersten Ordner an (JJJJMMTT): " now  
read -p "Geben Sie den letzten Ordner an (JJJJMMTT): " end  

while [ "$now" != "$end" ] ;
do
now=`date +"%Y%m%d" -d "$now +1 day"`;
mkdir $now
done 

Any idea?

Solution

First of all, Thanks to every comment of you!!! REGEX is toooo difficult for me. Thanks alyway. After a lot of research today I fit together a lot of puzzle parts. What I got is this: The only thing is that if there is already a folder the respective files are not copied due to the while function. But as the script stops one day before today this should not be a problem. Then I made two more scripts for the case in the past I forgot to make a movie it will be created. The other checks if the MP4 file already exists in the plex folder and if not copy the file there. Actually I just modified the script for that.

The script for "normal" work:

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Geben Sie den ersten Ordner an (JJJJMMTT): " begin  
end=$(date +%Y%m%d -d "-1 day")                                       
 while [ $begin != $end ] 
do
begin=`date +"%Y%m%d" -d "$begin +1 day"`
if [ ! -d $begin ]  # Prüfen, ob es den Ordner gibt.                                      
then
    /bin/mkdir $begin 
    echo "Ordner $begin erstellt"
    mv *$begin*.jpg $begin  
echo "Bilder vom $begin verschoben nach $begin"
 cd $begin  
 $(mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf fps=12:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=7000 -oac copy -o Zeitraffer$begin.mp4)
  cp Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 /Plexfolder/ 
 echo "Kopiere Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 nach /RAID5/filme/Kamera/"
 cd ..
 fi
 done 

The script to check if the MP4 file exists if not creates it and copies to the plex folder:

#!/bin/bash

  read -p "Geben Sie den ersten Ordner an (JJJJMMTT): " begin  
  end=$(date +%Y%m%d -d "-1 day")       
  while [ $begin != $end ] 
  do
  begin=`date +"%Y%m%d" -d "$begin +1 day"`
  if [ -d $begin ] 
  then
  cd $begin 
  if [ ! -f Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 ] #Prüfen, ob es eine MP4 Datei gibt 
  then
  $(mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf fps=12:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=7000 -oac copy -o Zeitraffer$begin.mp4)
  cp Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 /plexfolder/ 
  echo "Kopiere Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 nach /plexfolder/"
  fi  
  cd ..
  fi
  done 

And the one to copy the missing MP4 file to the plex folder:

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Geben Sie den ersten Ordner an (JJJJMMTT): " begin  
end=$(date +%Y%m%d -d "-1 day") 
while [ $begin != $end ] 
do
begin=`date +"%Y%m%d" -d "$begin +1 day"`
if [ -d $begin ]          
then
cd $begin 
if [ ! -f "/plexfolder/Zeitraffer$begin.mp4" ] 
then
cp Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 /RAID5/filme/Kamera/
echo "Kopiere Zeitraffer$begin.mp4 nach /RAID5/filme/Kamera/"
fi  
cd ..
fi
done 

And you know what's the best??? IT REALLY WORKS!!! I cannot believe that I did it!!!

Thanks a lot for your help!!!

Answered By - Chucrute

Answer Checked By - Senaida (WPSolving Volunteer)