Create folders automatically and move files - linux

Question

I have a lot of daily files that are sort by hours which comes from a data-logger (waveform). I downloaded inside a USB stick, now I need to save them inside folders named with the first 8 characters of waveform.
Those files have the following pattern:
Year-Month-Day-hourMinute-##.Code_Station_location_Channel
for example, inside the USB I have:
2020-10-01-0000-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-10-01-0100-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-10-02-0300-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-10-20-0000-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-10-20-0100-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-11-15-2000-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-11-15-2100-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-11-19-0400-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE; 2020-11-19-0900-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE;
I modified a little a code from #user3360767 (shell script to create folder daily with time-stamp and push time-stamp generated logs) to speed up the procedure of creating a folder and moving the files to them
for filename in 2020-10-01*EHE; do
foldername=$(echo "$filename" | awk '{print (201001)}');
mkdir -p "$foldername"
mv "$filename" "$foldername"
echo "$filename $foldername" ;
done
2020-10-01*EHE
Here I list all hours from 2020-10-01-0000-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE
foldername=$(echo "$filename" | awk '{print (201001)}');
Here I create the folder that belongs to 2020-10-01 and with the following lines create the folder and then move all files to created folder.
mkdir -p "$foldername"
mv "$filename" "$foldername"
echo "$filename $foldername" ;
As you may notice, I will always need to modify the line for filename in 2020-10-01*EHE each time the file changes the date.
Is there a way to try to create folders with the first 8 number of the file?
Tonino

Answer 1

Use date
And since the foldername doesn't change, you don't need to keep creating one inside the loop.
files="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)*EHE"
foldername=$(date +%Y%m%d)
mkdir -p "$foldername"
for filename in $files; do
mv "$filename" "$foldername"
echo "$filename $foldername"
done
Edit:
If you want to specify the folder each time, you can pass it as an argument and use sed to get the filename pattern
foldername=$1
files=$(echo $1 | sed 's/\(....\)\(..\)\(..\)/\1-\2-\3/')
filepattern="$files*EHE"
mkdir -p "$foldername"
for filename in $filepattern; do
mv "$filename" "$foldername"
echo "$filename $foldername"
done
You call it with
./<yourscriptname>.sh 20101001

Answer 2

I think you want to move all files whose names end in *EHE into subdirectories. The subdirectories will be created as necessary and will be named according to the date at the start of each filename without the dashes/hyphens.
Please test the following on a copy of your files in a temporary directory somewhere.
#!/bin/bash
for filename in *EHE ; do
# Derive folder by deleting all dashes from filename, then taking first 8 characters
folder=${filename//-/}
folder=${folder:0:8}
echo "Would move $filename to $folder"
# Uncomment next 2 lines to actually move file
# mkdir -p "$folder"
# mv "$filename" "$folder"
done
Sample Output
Would move 2020-10-01-0000-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE to 20201001
Would move 2020-10-01-0100-03.AM_REDDE_00_EHE to 20201001
Note that the 2 lines:
folder=${filename//-/}
folder=${folder:0:8}
use "bash parameter substitution", which is described here if you want to learn about it, and obviate the need to create whole new processes to run awk, sed or cut to extract the fields.