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Bulk move files into new folders? (feddit.uk)

submitted 3 days ago by Denjin@feddit.uk to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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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.

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 9 hours ago

No, you can't.

With my 500 movies and several hundred TV series, that does not work.

Jellyfin mis-identifies a significant portion of it doing this.

Only by using the named folders (with year and imdbid) does it get 90% right.

And I've had this across 5 Jellyfin servers in the last year - I've done a LOT of testing.