Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:08:55 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: thoughts on sorting files into sub-folders by access date? Message-ID: <20100701220855.70d74b03@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilntk8nw4bORlA-E3Wc96NwFUdjhlnqla-xcx92@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTilntk8nw4bORlA-E3Wc96NwFUdjhlnqla-xcx92@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:20:25 -0700
Steve Franks <bahamasfranks@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi y'all,
>
> My high-end point&shoot camera likes to glob all my photos in a single
> folder, and it's glutting up my drive, and makes finding a specific
> trip unpleasant, with no good place for metadata. My SLR sorts them
> into folders by date, which I love.
>
> ...
> I thought I'd check if there's some trivially simple way of doing this
> with bash & find first.
>
If the timestamps are acccurate you could simply loop around the files
and do something like this (untested):
dir="${targetdir}/`stat -f %Sm -t %Y%m%d ${file}`/"
[ -d "${dir}"] || mkdir "${dir}"
mv "${file}" "${dir}"]
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