move2archive 2023.7.15.1

Managing event-related files in a folder hierarchy like <ARCHIVE>/2013/2013-05-17 Event name/

This script moves items (files or directories) containing ISO datestamps like "YYYY-MM-DD" into a directory stucture for the corresponding year.

You define the base directory either in this script (or using the command line argument "--archivedir"). The convention is e.g.:

• /2009
• /2010
• /2011

By default, this script extracts the year from the datestamp of each file and moves it into the corresponding directory for its year:

 m2a 2010-01-01_Jan2010.txt 2011-02-02_Feb2011.txt

... moves "2010-01-01_Jan2010.txt" to "/2010/" ... moves "2011-02-02_Feb2011.txt" to "/2011/"

OPTIONALLY you can define a sub-directory name with option "-d DIR". If it contains no datestamp by itself, a datestamp from the first file of the argument list will be used. This datestamp will be put in front of the name:

 m2a  -d "2009-02-15 bar"  one two three

... moves all items to: "/2009/2009-02-15 bar/"

 m2a  -d bar  2011-10-10_one 2008-01-02_two 2011-10-12_three

... moves all items to: "/2011/2011-10-10 bar/"

If you feel uncomfortable you can simulate the behavior using the "--dryrun" option. You see what would happen without changing anything at all.