I would like to find .png files in current sub-folders and move them in new folders. I need one .png file, per single folder. Folders needs to be auto-created. I tried something like below, but doesn't work. Please help me.

#!/bin/bash
find . -name "*.png" -print0 | \
sort -z --version-sort | \
xargs -0n1 bash -c 'TARGET=target-$((${1//[^0-9]/} "/ 0   1)); \
mkdir -p "$TARGET"; \
mv -t "$TARGET" "$@"' move-1

CodePudding user response：

I suggest to use a counter in a while loop:

find . -name "*.png" -print0 |
  while IFS= read -r -d '' f ; do
    c=$((c 1));
    mkdir "$c";
    mv -v "$f" "$c";
  done

CodePudding user response：

Something like this.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

n=1
find . -name '*.png' -print0 | {
  while IFS= read -rd '' pic; do
    while [[ -e $n ]]; do
      ((n  ))
    done
    mkdir -vp "$n" && mv -v "$pic" "$n"
  done
}

Tested against the files and directories, created by:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

mkdir -p foo/bar/baz/more/qux

touch foo/bar/{a..c}.png
touch foo/bar/baz/{d..f}.png
touch foo/bar/baz/more/{g..i}.png
touch foo/bar/baz/more/qux/{j..l}.png

Output

mkdir: created directory '1'
renamed './foo/bar/a.png' -> '1/a.png'
mkdir: created directory '2'
renamed './foo/bar/b.png' -> '2/b.png'
mkdir: created directory '3'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/d.png' -> '3/d.png'
mkdir: created directory '4'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/e.png' -> '4/e.png'
mkdir: created directory '5'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/f.png' -> '5/f.png'
mkdir: created directory '6'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/more/g.png' -> '6/g.png'
mkdir: created directory '7'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/more/h.png' -> '7/h.png'
mkdir: created directory '8'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/more/i.png' -> '8/i.png'
mkdir: created directory '9'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/more/qux/j.png' -> '9/j.png'
mkdir: created directory '10'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/more/qux/k.png' -> '10/k.png'
mkdir: created directory '11'
renamed './foo/bar/baz/more/qux/l.png' -> '11/l.png'
mkdir: created directory '12'
renamed './foo/bar/c.png' -> '12/c.png'

CodePudding user response：

You can keep your logic and integrate with below logic. Here is full command

find . -type f -name "*.png" -print -exec mkdir {}.folder   \;  | xargs -I {} mv {} {}.folder

• Below command will find png, -exec will create folder. -print is important to pass result next XARGS.

find . -type f -name "*.png" -print -exec mkdir {}.folder   \;

• And this line will move files accordingly to next folder.

xargs -I {} mv {} {}.folder

You can change folder path accodring your requirement.