Move files into subfolders based on common names.

google-photos-organizer.sh

#/bin/env bash
# Created to help group photos based on their similar naming instead of using
# the folders Google had them in.

INDIR='./Google Photos'
OUTDIR='out'
SUB_LEN=10
DEBUG=0

set -e

echo "Searching in ${INDIR}"

find "${INDIR}/" -type f | while read path; do

  FN=$(basename "${path}")
  SUB_NAME=$(echo "${FN}" | cut -c 1-${SUB_LEN})
  FULL_OUTDIR="${OUTDIR}/${SUB_NAME}"

  if [ "${DEBUG}" -eq "0" ]; then

    if [ ! -d "${FULL_OUTDIR}" ]; then
      mkdir -p "${FULL_OUTDIR}"
    fi

    mv --backup=t --strip-trailing-slashes "${path}" "${FULL_OUTDIR}/${FN}"
  else
    echo "Would move ${path} to ${FULL_OUTDIR}/${FN}"
  fi
done