Sort files into subfolders acoording to name [script]

Question

I have several files which were recovered from a backup but have the structure (file location) as the file name.

eg:

C\Users\Welcome\Desktop\Doc1.docx
F\New folder\concerts\0904M002.WAV

I want to make a script that takes these names one by one and creates the respective folders and place the file inside the folder.

for eg: F\New folder\concerts\0904M002.WAV

--> Make a folder "F" on current directory then cd to F make a folder "New folder" similarly make "concerts" (or directly do mkdir F\New folder\concerts)

--> rename the file "F\New folder\concerts\0904M002.WAV " to "0904M002.WAV " and move it to the newly created folder "F\New folder\concerts\"

Can some one help me with the script? Thanks

Answer 1

Use the following bash script.

#!/bin/bash
for file in *\\*
do 
    destFile="${file//\\/\/}"
    destFolder="${destFile%/*}"
    [ -d "$destFolder" ] || mkdir -p "$destFolder"
    mv -v "$file" "$destFile"
done

The code basically replaces all the \ in the source file with / to get the destination file path. Then it gets the destination directory of the file and creates it using mkdir -p. Finally the file is copied to the destination folder.

Write the code into a file (let us say script.sh) and then in terminal do

$ chmod +x script.sh
$ ./script.sh