ruby script for moving files to directories based on [filetype]/[year]/[month]/[filename] from recovered files on mac using PhotoRec.

moveFiles.rb

puts '----Starting the move'
dir_target = '/Volumes/backup/recfiles'

#moving the files
def moveFiles (myfile)
	fileType = File.extname(myfile)[1..-1]
	targetPath = "/Volumes/backup/recovered/#{fileType}/";
	fileTime = File.mtime(myfile)
	fileYear = Time.at(fileTime).year
	fileMonth = Time.at(fileTime).month
	fileName = File.basename(myfile)
	targetDir = "\"#{targetPath}#{fileYear}/#{fileMonth}\""

	unless File.directory?("#{targetPath}#{fileYear}/#{fileMonth}")
		cmdPathMaker = "mkdir -p #{targetDir}"
		if not fileMonth == ''
			system(cmdPathMaker)
		end
	end

	cmdToExec = "mv -fn \"#{myfile}\" #{targetDir}/"

	if not fileMonth == ''
		system(cmdToExec)
	end
end

# listing the files
def listFiles (f)
	print "-----DIR: #{f} "
	mycounter = 1
	Dir.glob("#{f}/**/*").each do |f|
		if not File.extname(f)[1..-1] == ''
			moveFiles f
			mycounter = mycounter.next
		end
	end
	p " ---- #{mycounter} files."
end

# list the dirs
Dir.glob("#{dir_target}/**/*").each do |f|
	if File.directory?(f)
		listFiles f
	end
end

# cleaning up
system("find #{dir_target} -depth 1 -type d -empty -delete")