image_sorter.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# image_sorter.sh 
# Copyright (C) 2017 Hugo
#
# Distributed under terms of the MIT license.
#
# This script will sort the image and video files from an android phone by date by placing them in directories
# according to the dates that can be extracted from the filename. The filenames of the images must be structured
# as follows: yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.jpg or yyyymmdd_HHMMSS.mp4 (other extentions can be added easily)
# 
#

# Sort the files by folder, input is as follows:
# input 0 = the original filename, input 1 = the directory the file will be in
# input 2 = the new filename
sortFiles(){
    while read -a input
    do
        if ! test -d ${input[1]} 
        then mkdir -p ${input[1]}
        fi  
        mv ${input[0]} ${input[1]}/${input[2]}
    done
}

# Test the input from pipe (just switch it with sortFiles at the end of the pipe)
testIt(){
    while read -a input
    do
        echo ${input[@]} zero : ${input[0]} one: ${input[0]} tho ${input[1]} three: ${input[1]} 
        if ! test -d ${input[1]}
        then echo making dir ${input[1]}
            mkdir -p ${input[1]}
        fi  
        echo copying ${input[0]} ${input[1]}/${input[2]}
    done
}

ls | grep '.*\.jpg\|.*\.mp4' | sed -r -e 's/((^[0-9]{4})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})_([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})([0-9]{2})(.*\..*$))/\1 \2\/\3-\4 \3-\4-\5:\6:\7\8/g' | sortFiles