Simple shell script to automatically move folder

[mo.reina]

How does one then remove the space at the end of the resulting 'series_name'?

If the file has the format of "foo foo - 3x11", and I use the statement you have shown above, the resulting 'series_name' is "foo foo " (note the trailing white-space).

P.S. I ask the simple question above because, believe it or not, earlier today I thought of the suggestion you offered, and naturally I encountered a problem with it.

have you tried sed?

series_name=`echo $1 | awk -F"-" '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/ $//'`

or awk

series_name=`echo $1 | awk -F"-" '{ print $1 }' | awk '{ sub(/ $/, ""); print }'

i'm sure this can be done with only one pipe, but i'm not quite sure how....

[dwhitney67]

Ok, that works! I learn something new everyday.

[knutz]

So how is that implemented into the script?
And can i run that as root?

Thanks.

/knutz

[dwhitney67]

So how is that implemented into the script?
And can i run that as root?

Thanks.

/knutz

#!/bin/bash

# change DEST to be the root-directory
# where you want your new folders created.
DEST="/"

series_name=`echo $1 | awk -F"-" '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/ $//'`
season_num=`echo $1 | awk -F"-" '{ print $2 }' | awk -F"x" '{ print $1 }' | awk -F" " '{ print $1 }'`

mkdir -p "$DEST/$series_name/Season $season_num"
mv "$1" "$DEST/$series_name/Season $season_num"

To run the script as root, use sudo. For example:

sudo scriptName <folder>

[knutz]

#!/bin/bash

# change DEST to be the root-directory
# where you want your new folders created.
DEST="/"

series_name=`echo $1 | awk -F"-" '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/ $//'`
season_num=`echo $1 | awk -F"-" '{ print $2 }' | awk -F"x" '{ print $1 }' | awk -F" " '{ print $1 }'`

mkdir -p "$DEST/$series_name/Season $season_num"
mv "$1" "$DEST/$series_name/Season $season_num"

To run the script as root, use sudo. For example:

sudo scriptName

Now this works!

Thank you VERY much!!

/knutz