I have a folder with thousands of files in this format
- filenameA – 1.ext
- filenameA – 2.ext
- filenameB – 1.ext
and sometimes
- filenameB – 02.ext
I need a script that will read the files and create a single folder with each distinct filename before the " – #.ext" and then add all files with that same name into the folder.
From the example above I would have two folders 1) filenameA 2) filenameB –
each with two files in them. The actual data has thousands of files and each group can have 1 to 50ish files, with sequential numbers added to the end.
Best Answer
If all your files follow the convention of
dirname - the_rest_and_ext
(have the-
in the middle) you can use something like:If all the files have the same extension, you can change the
for
to something like:NOTE: make sure you know what you are doing.