Import and sort video files from SD Card

README.md

Importing and Sorting Video Files

A reliable and easy way to import lots of video files with a high capacity SD Card makes it a lot easier to manage lots of recordings. These 2 scripts will import and sort the files. The variables for the paths should be customized at the start of the scripts.

Then simply open your shell to the directory where these script are placed and run the combined commands below.

sh import.sh && sort.sh

Once these command have finished the video files will be organized by date of file creation to make it easier to later find a video you want to edit.

• macOS (Catalina)

import.sh

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE_DIR="/Volumes/SDCard/Videos"
DESINATION_DIR="/Volumes/Imports/Unsorted"

mkdir -p "${DESINATION_DIR}"

FILES=$(ls "${SOURCE_DIR}"/ | grep -E "(\.JPG|\.MOV|\.MPG|\.MP4)" | xargs basename)

for FILE in ${FILES}; do
    SOURCE_FILE="${SOURCE_DIR}/${FILE}"
    DESTINATION_FILE="${DESINATION_DIR}/${FILE}"
    if [ -f "${SOURCE_FILE}" -a ! -f "${DESTINATION_FILE}" ]; then
        echo "Copying ${FILE}"
        # set -x
        cp -p "${SOURCE_FILE}" "${DESTINATION_FILE}"
        if [ -f "${DESTINATION_FILE}" ]; then
            SOURCE_SHA=$(shasum -a 256 "${SOURCE_FILE}" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
            DESTINATION_SHA=$(shasum -a 256 "${DESTINATION_FILE}" | cut -d ' ' -f 1)
            if [ "${SOURCE_SHA}" == "${DESTINATION_SHA}" ]; then
                rm "${SOURCE_FILE}"
            fi
        fi
    fi
done

sort.sh

#!/bin/bash

UNSORTED_DIR="/Volumes/Imports/Unsorted"
SORTED_DIR="/Volumes/Imports/Sorted"

file_datestamp()
{
    FILE_PATH=$1
    TIME_FORMAT="%Y-%m-%d"
    stat -F -t ${TIME_FORMAT} ${FILE_PATH} | cut -d " " -f 6
}

OIFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'

FILE_PATHS=$( find "${UNSORTED_DIR}" -type f -maxdepth 1 -print | xargs -0 echo )

for FILE_PATH in ${FILE_PATHS}; do
    FILE_DATESTAMP=$(file_datestamp "${FILE_PATH}")
    DESTINATION_DIR="${SORTED_DIR}/${FILE_DATESTAMP}"
    echo "${FILE_PATH} / ${FILE_DATESTAMP}"
    mkdir -p "${DESTINATION_DIR}"
    mv "${FILE_PATH}" "${DESTINATION_DIR}"
done

IFS="$OIFS"