RW, Thanks! For posterity, this is the full script that works for me for sorting my photos by date:
#!/bin/sh for file in *.jpg *.jpeg *.JPG *.JPEG *.avi *.AVI do dir="${targetdir}`stat -f %Sm -t %Y.%m.%d ${file}`" [ -d "${dir}" ] || mkdir "${dir}" mv "${file}" "${dir}" done Best, Steve On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:38 PM, RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:08:55 +0100 > RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> dir="${targetdir}/`stat -f %Sm -t %Y%m%d ${file}`/" >> [ -d "${dir}"] || mkdir "${dir}" >> mv "${file}" "${dir}"] >> > > Should be: > > dir="${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" > _______________________________________________ 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"