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Need some help please

2013-03-23T16:25:38-04:00

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Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:25 pm

Need some help please

2013-03-23T15:56:29-04:00

tbh this way above my skill level i think im gonna need the script coded for me

Statistics: Posted by COBRa — Sat Mar 23, 2013 3:56 pm

Need some help please

2013-03-23T11:33:28-04:00

Maybe, maybe not.
It all depends on how you get the names of the directories to be moved.
Using glob with a full path qualifier would cause my previous code to fail, as the returned list contains the whole path, not just the filename. The modification to sort that, however, is rather trivial:

Code:

set Target "/destination/[string index [file tail $Source] 0]"

This could be sorted with a regular expression as well, but I'm not sure you'd gain anything by doing it that way...

For other scenarios, regular expressions might very well be the preferred approach though...

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:33 am

Need some help please

2013-03-23T09:45:08-04:00

Just a question as the archive has a full alphabetical listing A to Z would it be better to use a regex to select the first letter or something ?

/site/archive/movies/a,b,c,d etc

Statistics: Posted by COBRa — Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:45 am

Need some help please

2013-03-23T09:27:39-04:00

Well, in this case, I wrote the examples rather generically. Hence I used /source and /destination as opposed to a real filesystem-path. You'll obviously have to modify these accordingly.

Also, this is not a complete script, but merely the bits'n'pieces you'll need for the specific task of moving the directories.

Looking at the updated post, you'd probably have to take some additional steps to avoid moving /site/ARCHIVE/MOVIE to /site/ARCHIVE/MOVIE/M/MOVIE, in case you are using the glob + foreach method.

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:27 am

Need some help please

2013-03-23T09:16:16-04:00

sorry after posting i realised it wasnt /root it was /site/ARCHIVE will this affect the coding

Statistics: Posted by COBRa — Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:16 am

Need some help please

2013-03-23T08:58:41-04:00

This would be fully possible, indeed.
Most of the things you'll need is available through the "file" and "glob" commands.

Breaking it down into the various steps:

Getting a list of directories in the source directory

Code:

set Directories [glob -type d /source/*]

This will retrieve all directories under /root. You might consider filtering out directories with one-letter names if your source and destination trees are the same, otherwize you'd just try to move the /root/T directory to be located under /root/T (being /root/T/T, then /root/T/T/T, etc..).
Simplest way to achieve this, is to modify the glob-pattern to something like /source/??*

Extracting the first letter of the directory to be moved

Code:

set Target "/destination/[string index $Source 0]"

This assumes that the name of the directory to be moved, has been stored in Source.
If combining this with the glob-code above, you'd end up with something like this:

Code:

foreach Source [glob -type d /source/*] {  set Target "/destination/[string index $Source 0]"  #...}

If you'd like to make sure that the destination is always upper-case, you could modify the code to use "string toupper":

Code:

set Target "/destination/[string toupper [string index $Source 0]]"

Moving the directory
First off, we'll have to make sure that the destination directory already exists. Otherwize, we'd have to create it before doing anything else

Code:

if {![file exists $Target]} {  file mkdir $Target} elseif {![file isdirectory $Target]} {  error "$Target already exists as a file"}

The last part is there to handle the case when there might already be a file with the same name as the target directory.

Next, do the actual move

Code:

file rename -- $Source $Target

Statistics: Posted by nml375 — Sat Mar 23, 2013 8:58 am

Need some help please

2013-03-23T09:14:38-04:00

Hi not sure if im posting in the right place but im trying to create a script to move folders from a root folder to a alphabetically listed folder

for example

This.folder.blah would move from /site/ARCHIVE to /site/ARCHIVE/MOVIE/T and
Same.again.blah would move from /site/ARCHIVE to /site/ARCHIVE/MOVIE/S etc so the script would pick up the the first letter of the first word and move to a predesignated folder

First of all is this possible if so could someone provide some help to get me started plz as i have no clue on how to make this

many thx in advance

Statistics: Posted by COBRa — Sat Mar 23, 2013 5:08 am