Move files to directories based on first part of filename? Move files to directories based on first part of filename? bash bash

Move files to directories based on first part of filename?


bash filenames 

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

bash filenames

Actually found a different way of doing it, just thought I'd post this for others to see/use if they would like.

#!/bin/bashdir="/books"if [[ `ls | grep -c pdf` == 0 ]]then        echo "NO PDF FILES"else        for src in *.pdf        do                author=${src%%-*}                authorlength=$((${#author}-1))                letter=${author:0:1}                author=${author:0:$authorlength}                mkdir -p "$dir/$letter/$author"                mv -u "$src" "$dir/$letter/$author"        donefi

bash filenames

@OP you can do it with just bash

dest="/tmp"OFS=$IFSIFS="-"for f in *.pdfdo    base=${f%.pdf}    letter=${base:0:1}    set -- $base    fullname=$1    pdfname=$2    directory="$dest/$letter/$fullname"    mkdir -p $directory    cp "$f" $directorydoneIFS=$OFS

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