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I have several thousand ebooks that need to be organized on a headless linux server running bash through SSH. All of the ebooks are thankfully named with one of 2 conventions.
What I would like to do is to move all of the books into an organized system such as:
`DestinationDirectory/FirstLetterOfAuthorFirstName/Author Full Name/pdf's`
e.g. the following books
Andrew Weiner - Changes.pdf
Allan Cole - Timura Trilogy 01 - When the Gods Slept.pdf
should be placed in the following folders
/books/A/Allan Cole/Allan Cole - Timura Trilogy 01 - When the Gods Slept.pdf
/books/A/Andrew Weiner/Andrew Weiner - Changes.pdf
I need help with how to put this all into a bash script that will grab the filenames of all the PDF files in the current directory, and then move the files to the proper directory, creating the directory if it doesn't already exist.
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Moving and Renaming files on Linux A file can be renamed during a move process using the mv command. You simply give the target path a different name. When mv moves the file, it will be given a new name. For example, to move a file named student1.
Right-click the file or folder you want, and from the menu that displays click Move or Copy. The Move or Copy window opens. Scroll down if necessary to find the destination folder you want.
mv command is used to move files and directories.
for f in *.pdf; do
name=`echo "$f"|sed 's/ -.*//'`
letter=`echo "$name"|cut -c1`
dir="DestinationDirectory/$letter/$name"
mkdir -p "$dir"
mv "$f" "$dir"
done
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