Bash script to collect .mp3 files from album folder to Music folder directly

Suppose you have two folders /home/sangram/Music & /home/sangram/Music/Other,

In Music Folder you only want to keep mp3 files directly.The Other folder 

contain multiple folders each containing mp3 files for different Song Album.

 

Here instead of directly copying mp3 to 'Music' folder i created another folder

in 'Music' folder to collect all such files named 'AllSongs'. 

 

Then following script will copy all mp3 files from Album folders to mp3.It does

not implement nested folder scenario.Code is Bash Script that can be run as

 

Assume code file name is OrganizeMusicFiles.sh then you need to base folder of

it to make it executable run

chmod +x OrganizeMusicFiles.sh

Then run script as follows  

./OrganizeMusicFiles.sh
 

 

Code: 

 

/bin/bash 

search_dir=/home/sangram/Music/Other

dest_dir=/home/sangram/Music/AllSongs/

echo "Search Directory: $search_dir"

echo "Destination Directory: $dest_dir"

echo "--------------------------------"

touch CopyLog.psv

echo "source|destinaion|time" > CopyLog.psv;

counter=0

break_flag=0

for entry in "$search_dir"/*; do

echo "--------------Folder:$entry------------------"

for inner_entry in "$entry"/*; do

echo "File under consideration is: $inner_entry"

#get file extension

filename=$(basename -- "$inner_entry")

extension="${filename##*.}"

echo "File Extension: $extension"

desired_extensions=("mp3")

if [[ ${desired_extensions[@]} =~ $extension ]]

then

echo "File $inner_entry is mp3"

else

echo "File $inner_entry is not mp3"

continue

fi

echo "Coping File:'$inner_entry' To '$dest_dir'"

echo "cp '$inner_entry' '$dest_dir'"

#logging the copy operation

current_date_time="`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`";

echo "'$inner_entry'|'$dest_dir'|'$current_date_time'" >> CopyLog.psv;

echo "\n" >> CopyLog.psv;

cp "$inner_entry" '$dest_dir'

counter=$((counter+1))

#coping only 10 files

if [ $counter -eq 10 ]

then

$break_flag=1

break

fi

echo '--------------------------------'

done

#if inner loop is broken then break outer loop also broken

if [ $break_flag -eq 1 ]

then

break

fi

echo "Total Files Copied: $counter"

break

done

 

I think the code might useful for someone which trying to something similar 

for sake of fun.

 

Happy Coding !