I am trying to write a sh script that will run when one of my downloads is completed.
It should look for a specific filename on ~/Downloads and move it to a different dir depending on the filename.
I.e. I have downloaded the last episode of Glee, the filename is:
glee_some_trash_files_always_have.mkv It should be moved to
~/TVshows/Glee/ This is what I was able to do:
#!/bin/bash if filename in ~/Downoads; then result= if filename = *glee*; then result= mv $filename ~/TVshows/Glee/ else if filename = *pokemon*; then result= mv $filename ~/TVshows/pokemon/ endif done Is my approach correct? Please note I am very new to sh.
Thanks in advance.
############################################################################### Edit: Here is my script, I hope someone else could find it useful:
#!/bin/bash cd "$HOME/Downloads" # for filename in *; do find . -type f | while IFS= read filename; do # Look for files in all ~/Download sub-dirs case "${filename,,*}" in # this syntax emits the value in lowercase: ${var,,*} (bash version 4) *.part) : ;; # Excludes *.part files from being moved move.sh) : ;; # *test*) mv "$filename" "$HOME/TVshows/Glee/" ;; # Using move there is no need to {&& rm "$filename"} *test*) scp "$filename" ":/users/imac/Desktop/" && rm "$filename" ;; *american*dad*) scp "$filename" ":/users/imac/Movies/Series/American\ Dad/" && rm "$filename" ;; *) echo "Don't know where to put $filename" ;; esac done 3 Answers
This is where the shell's case statement comes in handy:
#!/bin/bash cd "$HOME/Downloads" for filename in *; do # this syntax emits the value in lowercase: ${var,,*} (bash version 4) case "${filename,,*}" in glee*) mv "$filename" "$HOME/TVshows/Glee/" ;; pokemon*) mv "$filename" "$HOME/TVshows/pokemon/" ;; *) echo "don't know where to put $filename";; esac done The mv command can move multiple files at a time. The last argument is treated as a directory name. The trailing / is important; if there's one matching file name, and the target directory doesn't exist (say, because you misspelled it), it will create it as a file.
mv ~/Downloads/*glee* ~/TVshows/Glee/ mv ~/Downloads/*pokemon* ~/TVshows/pokemon/ This is my script for serial sorting.
#!/bin/bash PATH_FROM=/your/download/dir PATH_TO=/path/serial/directory cd $PATH_FROM ls -1 *{mkv,avi,srt,mp4} | sed -e 's/\.[s|S][0-9].*$//g' | uniq | while read -r serial do folder=$(echo $serial | tr A-Z a-z) folder=${folder/the./} folder=`echo ${folder//_/.}` folder=`echo ${folder//./ }` folder=( $folder ) folder=`echo "${folder[@]^}"` ls -1 ${serial// /.}.* | sed -e 's/'$serial'\.[s|S]//g' | sed -e 's/\..*$//g' | uniq | while read -r s do season=s$(echo "$s" | sed -e 's/[e|E].*$//g' | sed -e 's/^0//g') mkdir -p "$PATH_TO/$folder/$season" mv -f $serial.?$s* "$PATH_TO/$folder/$season/" log=`date +"[%d/%m/%Y %X]"` echo $log" "$serial" success sync with "$PATH_TO"/"$folder"/"$season >> /path/to/logfiledir/log.txt done done 
