Move Movies of different Encodes to a common Folder with original Movie Title

Question

So I am having this situation... I have many files in my Folder which will look like this

Iron.Man.2008.1440p.UHD.US.BluRay.x265.HDR.DD5.1-Pahe.in
Iron Man 2008.7         


        

Answer 1

with bash using the regex pattern matching with BASH_REMATCH

#!/usr/bin/env bash

declare -A uniq

##: The script should be inside the directory where the video files are
for files in *; do
  if [[ $files =~ ^(.*[[:digit:]]{4})\.(.+)$ ]]; then
    no_space=${BASH_REMATCH[1]// /.}
    uniq[$no_space]=1
    all_files+=("${BASH_REMATCH[0]}")
    first_part+=("${BASH_REMATCH[1]}")
  fi
done

for j in "${!uniq[@]}"; do
  mkdir -p "$j"
  dir+=("$j")
done

for i in "${!all_files[@]}"; do
  for k in "${dir[@]}"; do
    if [[ ${first_part[$i]// /.} == $k ]]; then
      mv -v  "${all_files[$i]}" "$k"
    fi
  done
done

---

Version 2.0 which try to match all the new file format/pattern.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

declare -A uniq

for files in *; do
  if [[ $files =~ ^(.*\(?[[:digit:]]{4}\)?)[\.[[:blank:]]]?(.+)$ ]]; then
    no_space=${BASH_REMATCH[1]// /.}
    uniq[$no_space]=1
    all_files+=("${BASH_REMATCH[0]}")
    first_part+=("${BASH_REMATCH[1]}")
  fi
done

for j in "${!uniq[@]}"; do
  mkdir -p "${j//[)(]}"
  dir+=("$j")
done

for i in "${!all_files[@]}"; do
  for k in "${dir[@]}"; do
  if [[ ${first_part[$i]// /.} == $k ]]; then
    mv -v  "${all_files[$i]}" "${k//[)(]}"
  fi
  done
done

• Just try it out for a couple of sample files and not the whole 4k files like what you have now.

• also make a backup of the files just in case.