Bash script to move files from a text file to a specified folder

For my video projects, i needed import few videos, they were already segreagated into folders with list of files

they look like this

IMG_7733.MOV
IMG_7734.MOV
IMG_7735.MOV
IMG_7736.MOV
IMG_7737.MOV
IMG_7738.MOV
IMG_7739.MOV
IMG_7740.MOV
.
.

I wanted to push them into one folder. This is my regular work flow, so today launched my local llm and asked it.

llm "I have a txt file that has list of file names. write me a bash script the moves all this files in a folder specified by the user. if not specified it creates a folder named 'copied'

this produced this and it worked perfect

#!/bin/bash

# Check if the user provided a destination folder, otherwise set it to 'copied'
DEST_FOLDER="${1:-copied}"

# Check if the destination folder exists, if not create it
if [ ! -d "$DEST_FOLDER" ]; then
  mkdir -p "$DEST_FOLDER"
  echo "Created directory: $DEST_FOLDER"
fi

# Check if the list file is specified
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 [destination_folder] list_of_files.txt"
  exit 1
fi

# Read the file list and move each file to the destination folder
while IFS= read -r file; do
  if [ -f "$file" ]; then
    mv "$file" "$DEST_FOLDER"
    echo "Moved $file to $DEST_FOLDER"
  else
    echo "File not found: $file"
  fi
done < "$2"

echo "All files have been moved."

So i copied this to a filed named move_files in the .local/bin folder

chmod +x move_files

So now i just use this workflow for copying my video files

mkdir 1
move_files 1 orderfile_home.txt

and all the files in orderfile_home.txt are moved to folder 1

sukhbinder/move_files.md