Creat folders and copy file inside them

[OOzypal]

Hello

I have many photos inside many folders for example:

2008-Home
--1.jpg
--2.jpg
2008-Work
--2.jpg
--2.jpg
--2.jpg
2011-Party
--1.jpg
--2.jpg
--3.jpg

etc.

Each folder has jpg photos. I want to batch these folder and go inisde them then create a folder called jpg then copy all photos inside the jpg folder to be like
2008-Home
--jpg
----1.jpg
----2.jpg
2008-Work
--jpg
----1.jpg
----2.jpg
----3.jpg
2011-Party
--jpg
----1.jpg
----2.jpg
----3.jpg

How can I do that?

[coffeecat]

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[TheFu]

filenames and directory names beginning with dashes (-) will cause issues with some programs. Best to avoid that.

[OOzypal]

Sure. But these not (-s). These to show the folder structure.

[&wP*!)]

You can do that with a small Perl script very easily. Following Perl code does what you want, but only for 1 hierarchy:

#!/bin/env perl

use Getopt::Long;

$root_dir = ".";

GetOptions (
        "d=s"   => \$root_dir,
);

print "$root_dir\n";

foreach $dir (glob "$root_dir/*") {
        print "Processing $dir\n";
        if (glob "$dir/*.jpg" == "") { print "The directory $dir has no JPEG files. Skipping...\n"; }
        mkdir "jpg";
        system ("mv ".glob ("$dir/*.jpg")." $dir/jpg");
}

Save it as something like mv_jpeg.pl and make it executable by chmod 755 mv_jpeg.pl.
Now you can call it in any root directory you want:

./mv_jpeg.pl -d some_dir

This creates in each subdirectory under "some_dir" a sub-sub-directory called "jpg" and move all files in the subdir with the extension "*.jpg" into this folder.

You can modify the script in the way you want.
With little effort it can be recursive.

[Holger_Gehrke]

The simplest solution would be something like this

for i in list-of-folder-names ; do mkdir "$i"/jpg && mv -- "$i/*[jJ][pP][gG]" "$i"/jpg; done

executed in a terminal. Replace "list-of-folder-names" with a space-separated list of directories (if any of the folder-names contains space(s) put the name in quotes). This will create a directory named "jpg" inside each of the named folders and move the files whose names end in 'jpg' (in any variation of capital and minor letters) from the original directory into the new directory. If the attempt to make the directory fails, moving isn't tried (that's what the '&&' means). The '--' in the 'mv' command tells 'mv' that there are no further options, so filenames starting with on or more dashes don't lead to problems.

[OOzypal]

hab@asus:~/Dropbox/Personal/Multimedia/Photo$ ./my_jpeg.pl -d some_dir

/bin/env: ‘perl\r’: No such file or directory

[&wP*!)]

hab@asus:~/Dropbox/Personal/Multimedia/Photo$ ./my_jpeg.pl -d some_dir

/bin/env: ‘perl\r’: No such file or directory

There must be no other character after the text perl. I do see "\r" in your text. Don't use weird whitespace characters. Just type enter after the 1st line (it should go to the next line in the editor).
If it is still the same problem, change:

#!/bin/env perl

with

#!/usr/bin/perl

... and run the script again. If this does not work either, try this (no matter how 1st line looks like) - change "some_dir" with the top directory name !! -:

perl mv_jpeg.pl -d some_dir

If this doesn't work, check whether you have Perl:

which perl

If this doesn't return anything, it means to me that you don't have Perl installed on your computer. Install it with the following command:

sudo apt-get install perl

afterwards even /bin/env solution should work.

[OOzypal]

I did remove the extra character and I am getting nothing except the some_dir is re-printed in the terminal.

[OOzypal]

The simplest solution would be something like this

for i in list-of-folder-names ; do mkdir "$i"/jpg && mv -- "$i/*[jJ][pP][gG]" "$i"/jpg; done

executed in a terminal. Replace "list-of-folder-names" with a space-separated list of directories (if any of the folder-names contains space(s) put the name in quotes). This will create a directory named "jpg" inside each of the named folders and move the files whose names end in 'jpg' (in any variation of capital and minor letters) from the original directory into the new directory. If the attempt to make the directory fails, moving isn't tried (that's what the '&&' means). The '--' in the 'mv' command tells 'mv' that there are no further options, so filenames starting with on or more dashes don't lead to problems.

True it is simple but it is not practical. I can't list so many directories in one line. In addition, it didn't work. It created a jpg folder in each directoy but nothing else with an error-see attached.

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