On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:20:25 -0700 Steve Franks <bahamasfra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi y'all, > > My high-end point&shoot camera likes to glob all my photos in a single > folder, and it's glutting up my drive, and makes finding a specific > trip unpleasant, with no good place for metadata. My SLR sorts them > into folders by date, which I love. > > ... > I thought I'd check if there's some trivially simple way of doing this > with bash & find first. > If the timestamps are acccurate you could simply loop around the files and do something like this (untested): dir="${targetdir}/`stat -f %Sm -t %Y%m%d ${file}`/" [ -d "${dir}"] || mkdir "${dir}" mv "${file}" "${dir}"] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"