addAlphaDir.sh

gistfile1.txt

#!/bin/bash

echo "Please provide the full path to the directory to organize: "

read path

touch ~/.addAlphaDir

while read -r ~/.addAlphaDir
do
	if [$line_in == $path]; then
		echo "You've already run this script on that directory. If you do it again, you'll create nested directorys, and have a bad time. \n"
		exit
	else
		echo "Cool, man. \n"
	fi
done

pushd "$path"


for ch in {a..z}
do
	mkdir new"$ch"
	mv "$ch"* new"$ch"
	mv "${ch^^}"* new"$ch"
	mv new"$ch" "$ch"

	echo "$path" >> ~/.addAlphaDir.log

done

Hi Alex,

this is what works for me:

!/bin/bash

echo "Please provide the full path to the directory to organize: "

read path

while read line
do
if [ $line == $path ]; then
echo "You've already run this script on that directory. If you do it again, you'll create nested directorys, and have a bad time. \n"
exit
else
echo "Cool, man. \n"
fi
done <.addAlphaDir.log

pushd "$path"

for ch in {a..z}
do
mkdir new"$ch"
mv "$ch"* new"$ch"
mv "${ch^^}"* new"$ch"
mv new"$ch" "$ch"

    echo "$path" >> ~/.addAlphaDir.log

done

Sorry, GitHub mangled your formatting making it hard to read with proper syntax. In your version, where is 'while read line' pulling 'line' from?

Hi Alex,

Yes, sorry for that. Here's an updated version:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Please provide the full path to the directory to organize: "

read path

while read line
do
        if [ $line == $path ]; then
                echo "You've already run this script on that directory. If you do it again, you'll create nested directorys, and have a bad time. \n"
                exit
        else
                echo "Cool, man. \n"
        fi
done <.addAlphaDir.log

pushd "$path"


for ch in {a..z}
do
        mkdir new"$ch"
        mv "$ch"* new"$ch"
        mv "${ch^^}"* new"$ch"
        mv new"$ch" "$ch"

        echo "$path" >> ~/.addAlphaDir.log

done

So, basically it reads from a file .addAlphaDir.log which you can see in the code "done <.addAlphaDir.log". Why this kind of reading? I found it here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4642191/read-line-by-line-in-bash-script. Also, I found out the the "if" statement was wrong, as it needed spaces after the starting bracket and before the ending bracket (which you can see here: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-6.html)

Well Alex, you never did get back to me if this helped you or not?