Mass rename, folder creation, and move.

[s3cur17y]

Hello, I was wondering if someone would have a script that would recursively check a folder for avi files and rename them by the folder they are in and then create a new folder in the parent directory and move the avi there.

[aesir]

This would do most of the job

find ./ -name '*.avi' | while read i; do 
 j=`expr "$i" : ".*\/\(.*\)\/.*\.avi"`
 new="destdir/$j.avi"
 [ ! -e "$new" ] && ln "$i" "$new"
done

Change destdir to where you want to move the file, and "ln" to "mv" if you want to remove the original.
If you want to keep it simple destdir should be outside the current directory.

[s3cur17y]

Thank you for your help...