Script to consolidate all the .MOV files on my computer into a single directory, organized by YYYY/YYYY-MM/YYYY-MM-DD.filename.mov dir structure.

move_movies.rb

#!/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/2.1.5/bin/ruby
#
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require 'fileutils'

base_dir = ARGV[0]
target_dir = ARGV[1]

movies = Dir.glob([base_dir, '**','*.mov'].join('/'))

counter = 0
movies.each do |movie|
  counter += 1
#  next unless counter < 100

  f = File.new(movie)
  new_path = [ target_dir, f.mtime.strftime("%Y/%Y-%m/%Y-%m-%d/%Y-%m-%d")].join('/')
  FileUtils.mkdir_p (new_path) unless File.exists?(new_path)

  new_path += '.' + File.basename(f)
  printf("%04d: Renaming %s to %s\n", counter, f.path, new_path)
  FileUtils.mv(f, new_path, :verbose => true)
end