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.

Answer 2

Since you also tagged this PowerShell, here's a solution:

$sourceFolder = 'D:\Test'          # where the files are now
$destination  = 'D:\Movies'        # where the subfolders storing the files should be created

$regex = '^(\D+[.\s]\d{4})\..*'    # see explanation below
(Get-ChildItem -Path 'D:\Test' -File | Where-Object { $_.BaseName -match $regex }) | 
    ForEach-Object {
        $subFolder = ([regex]$regex).Match($_.BaseName).Groups[1].Value -replace '\s', '.'
        $targetDir = Join-Path -Path $destination -ChildPath $subFolder
        # create the subfolder if it does not yet exist
        if (!(Test-Path -Path $targetDir -PathType Container)) {
            $null = New-Item -Path $targetDir -ItemType Directory
        }
        $_ | Copy-Item -Destination $targetDir
    }

Regex details:

^           # Assert position at the beginning of a line (at beginning of the string or after a line break character)
(           # Match the regular expression below and capture its match into backreference number 1
   \D       # Match a single character that is not a digit 0..9
      +     # Between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)
   [.\s]    # Match a single character present in the list below
            # The character “.”
            # A whitespace character (spaces, tabs, line breaks, etc.)
   \d       # Match a single digit 0..9
      {4}   # Exactly 4 times
)
\.          # Match the character “.” literally
.           # Match any single character that is not a line break character
   *        # Between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)