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Move files into their own directories, using filenames without extensions.
# Credit should go to http://stackoverflow.com/a/12607951/1563507
# Move files into their own directories, using filenames without extensions.
die() { echo "$*" >&2; exit 1; }
for file in *.md; do # `md` used as example of filtering files one wants to move
dir=${file%.md}
test -d $dir || mkdir $dir # or just mkdir -p $dir
test -f $dir && die "$dir exists and is a file!"
mv $file $dir
done
# Do something with each directory.
for dir in *; do ...; done
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