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Move all Files of same extension to a Folder

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I know I can use something like mv *zip zip/ but I want to auto-create each folder if not exists and move my all files to them. With the below code I have to hard code everything. Is there any way to automate this. Like First Get all Extensions of files then Create folders if not exists and move files into them according to file types like png to images/png and mp3 to Audio/mp3 or pdf to Documents/pdf.

find . -name "*.mp4" -exec mv "{}" ./Videos ;

Edit-1
I have figured someway but I don't want to move .sh files how to delete from an array of a specific element and Group filetypes like png, jpg to images/png, images/jpg and mp3 to Audio/mp3 or pdf to Documents/pdf.

array=($(find . -type f | sed 's/.*.//' | sort | uniq ))



for dir in "${array[@]}"; do

        [[ ! -d "$dir" ]] && mkdir "$dir"

        find . -name "*.$dir" -exec mv "{}" ./"$dir" ;

done

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answered 2 Years ago asketbridiculou · Accepted Answer

Moving files based on file type

You can batch create your directories, move the files, then delete empty directories.

ScriptRoot='/some/path'



# Create the Directories

mkdir '${ScriptRoot}/Images'

mkdir '${ScriptRoot}/Music'

mkdir '${ScriptRoot}/Documents'

mkdir '${ScriptRoot}/Videos'



# Move the files (edit to match the targeted extensions...

find '${ScriptRoot}' -name '*.mp3' -or -name '*.flac' -exec mv {} '${ScriptRoot}/Music' ;

find '${ScriptRoot}' -name '*.jpeg' -or -name '*.jpg' -or -name '*.png' -exec mv {} '${ScriptRoot}/Images' ;

# find (... and so and so for Documents and Videos)



# Delete empty directories

find '${ScriptRoot}' -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} ;

Moving files based on file extension is way simpler but that is not what was asked.

To achieve what described, this can be modified with a file list generated by find, looped with a while read and several tests on file ext for moving to directories

for filename in *; do

  if [[ -f "$filename" ]]; then

    ext=${filename#$base.}

    mkdir -p "${ext}"

    mv "$filename" "${ext}"

  fi

done