Bash pitfails

Usefull article:
Common errors that Bash programmers make.

-- vladget

Simple bash script for sorting tons of photos and videos

 
Work on Mac OS X only.

#!/bin/bash


prefix="Timka.iPAD"
srcdir="/Users/vladget/Pictures/Медиатека Фото.photoslibrary/Masters/2015/09/19/20150919-144326"
dstdir="/Users/vladget/photos"
mkdir -p "$dstdir"

# do not use ls!
# http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs
for file in $srcdir/*; do
  dstsubdir="$dstdir"/$(date -r `stat  -f "%m" "$file"` "+%Y.%m.%d."$prefix".")
  if [ ! -d "$dstsubdir" ]; then
    mkdir -p  "$dstsubdir"
  fi

  mv "$file" "$dstsubdir"/
done