File Organization

README.md

This contains a few handy scripts for organizing files (particularly video files). First, use ./remove-non-video-files.sh to clear out any non-video files (and optionally non-subtitle files), then use ./org-files.sh to move all files matching a specified pattern into separate folders.

org-files.sh

# !/usr/bin/bash

# A quick script to clean up multiple files with similar names into single directories.
# This will create directories as specified and move all files based on those directory names
# into them. 

# Example usage: the below command will move any files in all subdirectories that match:
# 
#       *game*of*thrones*   -->     Game-Of-Thrones/
#       *silicon*valley*    -->     Silicon-Valley/
#       *doctor*who*        -->     Doctor-Who/
#    
#   ./org-files.sh Game-of-Thrones Silicon-Valley Doctor-Who
#   
#   @todo: might be nice to search matched files for TV *S##E##* format and organize them futher into folders

set -u          # error when referencing undefined vars
GLOBIGNORE="*"  # bash doesn't normally like "*" in strings

if [ -z "$@" ]; then
    echo "Usage: pass a list of hyphenated directory names to create and to search for."
    exit 1
fi

show_names=("$@") # turn our arguments into an array

for name in "${show_names[@]}"
do
    search=${name//-/\*}
    mkdir -p $name

    echo "Removing all files matching \"*$search*\" to \"$name\"..."
    find . -iname "*$search*" -type f -exec mv "{}" $(echo "./$name/") \;
done

# Now we're all done, remove all empty folders
echo ""
echo "Cleaning up empty directories..."
find . -type d -empty -delete

remove-non-video-files.sh

# !/usr/bin/bash
# 
# Quick script to remove all files in all subdirectories that do not have one of the following:
# 
#   ".mkv"
#   ".mp4"
#   ".wmv"
#   ".avi"
#   ".mov"
#   ".srt"
#   ".sub"
#   
# Usage:
#   ./remove-non-video-files.sh [-s|--keep-subtitles]
#   
#   -s, --keep-subtitles    Keep subtitle files
#   
# You will see a preview of results before being asked to remove them  

set -u # error when referencing undefined vars

# Get a list of all video files
files=$(find . -type f | grep -v ".mkv" | grep -v ".mp4" | grep -v ".wmv" | grep -v ".avi" | grep -v ".mov")

# If specified, add subtitle files to the list
if [[ $* == *--keep-subtitles* || $* == *-s* ]]; then
    files=$(echo $files | tr " " "\n" | grep -v ".srt" | grep -v ".sub")
fi

if [ ! "$files" ];then
   echo "No files to remove."
   exit 0
fi

echo "The following files will be removd:"
echo ""
echo "$files"
echo ""
printf "Are you sure? [y/n] "

read answer
answer="${answer,,}" # make answer lowercase

if [ "$answer" != 'y' -a "$answer" != 'yes' ]; then
    exit 0
fi

# Escape spaces and delete!
echo "$files" | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm -f

echo "...DONE"