So this is quite a complex one that I’m struggling with.
I have a big folder structure containing lots of sub directories and different file types. Inside there’s a bunch of directories with consistently formatted names like so:
08312018-archive-1948304132019-archive-84224
I need to drill down into all subdirectories and copy the .jpgs from them but I’d like to organise them into folders based on these names.
If I can list all the paths to jpgs I need with Find, like so:
find . -iname "*.jpg" -not -name ".*"
And get a list like:
- root/04132019-archive-84224/bin/blah/image1.jpg
- root/subdirectory/05122019-archive-43543/image2.jpg
- etc
Can I then do a pattern match for the XXXXXX-archive-XXXXX in the path and use that as a parent directory for the copy.
