Creates directories with the same name of the files and moves files inside them (Shell script)

move.sh

#!/bin/bash
# The line above is a shebang. You can read more about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix).

# Goes to base dir
cd ~/your/dir

# Iterate over directories in base directory.
for dir in *
do
	# For each directory, iterate over files.
	# ALERT 1: THIS CODE ORIGINALLY MOVES ONLY C FILES.
	# ALERT 2.1: YOU CAN MODIFY ".c" EXTENSION BELOW TO ANY OTHER THAT YOU DO PREFER
	for file in "$dir/"*.c
	do
		# If file exists, run. Otherwise, just continue the loop
		if [ -a "$file" ]; then
			# Returns a copy of the filename without the "#" character and stores it in newDir variable
			newDir=${file//#}
      
			# Returns a copy of newDir without the ".c" extension and stores it in newDir variable
			# ALERT 2.2: BUT REMEMBER TO CHANGE HERE TOO
			newDir=${newDir//.c}

			# Generates a new filename based on the original filename
			newName=${file//$dir\/#}

			# And wraps it into the new dir
			newName="$newDir/$newName"

			# If new dir does not exist, create it
			if [ ! -d "$newDir" ]; then
				mkdir -- "$newDir"
			fi

			# Logs the move operation on console
			echo "$file -> $newName"

			# Moves file with the new name into the new directory
			mv -- "$file" "$newName"
		fi
	done
done