I have a rather large library of movies gathered over the years (all entirely legally I assure you officer). I’m in the process of setting up a Jellyfin server so I can stream them on the go.

Currently it’s just one folder full of individual files but Jellyfin wants each movie within it’s own folder.

Is there a command, or set of commands, that would do this all in one go? ie iterate my way through a folder, create a new folder with the same name as a file, move that file into this new folder and repeat a few hundred times.

I am using Cachy OS (arch) and have Dolphin and yazi as file managers if that helps. I guess a bash script would be the best way to achieve this but my skills are quite rusty.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    13 hours ago

    I mean, I’d need to fiddle around with it, but presumably this wouldn’t be all too hard to script.

    Just do a for-loop over the output of ls. And then in each iteration step, you’d do something like:

    mkdir $name
mv $name $name/$name

    This will mean, though, that the file extension is part of the folder name, if you care about that.

    • Denjin@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      That’s probably the most straight forward and I could probably add a bit of regex to trim the extension off the name as well.

      Now I need to try and remember how to script considering I haven’t coded anything for 15 years!