#!/bin/bash
# When a match is not found, just present nothing.
shopt -s nullglob
# Match all .wav files containing the date format.
files=(*[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*.wav)
if [[ ${#files[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "No match found."
fi
for file in "${files[@]}"; do
# We get the date part by part
file_date=''
# Sleep it to parts.
IFS="-." read -ra parts <<< "$file"
for t in "${parts[@]}"; do
# Break from the loop if a match is found
if [[ $t == [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] ]]; then
file_date=$t
break
fi
done
# If a value was not assigned, then show an error message and continue to the next file.
# Just making sure there is nothing in Array and date before it moves on
if [[ -z $file_date ]]; then
unset $files
continue
fi
file_year=${file_date:0:4}
file_month=${file_date:4:2}
echo $file_year
echo $file_month
echo mkdir -p $file_year/$file_month
mkdir -p "$file_year/$file_month"
# -- is just there to not interpret filenames starting with - as options.
echo "$file" "$file_year/$file_month"
mv "$file" "$file_year/$file_month"
done
So after running my code my output is this I det DIR 201211, 201212, 201301,201302,201303,201304, So I try running this because I have files that have a YYYYMMDD and wanna make DIR the year and then inside that i want DIR month then file. Sometimes I can get a DIR2013/06/files but for some odd reason i get DIR201304/files. I am not understanding what the issue is....... Im running this script on about 1.1 Terabite