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I use this on my downloads folder for sorting files into folders based on strings in the filename. You need a folder tree, for example:

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Main
    Dave
    Pete
    Harry


and in the above, any incoming files with 'Dave' anywhere in their names will be moved to the 'Dave' folder, any with 'Pete' in the Pete folder .... etc. Matches are case insensitive.

Use:
Create a new rule and add a "Passes Shell script" condition, Embedded script. Edit the script, copy the script below into it, change the RootFolder variable to the full path of your folder tree and set the shell to /bin/bash. Bish, Bosh.

Comment out the growlnotify line if you don't have growl installed.

Enjoy

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#script:
RootFolder=/Users/Kim/Downloads/Movies

# split only on new line
OLDIFS="$IFS"  # save it
IFS="
"
file="$1"
for folder in $(ls -1 $RootFolder/)  ; do

   ufolder=`echo $folder | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
   ufile=`echo $file | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`
   
   if grep -q $ufolder <<< $ufile ; then
      mv $file to $RootFolder/$folder
      /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -m "Moved $file to $folder in Movies" MovieMover
      exit 0
   fi

done

IFS=OLDIFS

exit 1


Sorry ... and set the action to 'ignore'

Thank you for sharing this! I found it incredibly powerful.

Does this script still work? Can you expand a little more on the folder tree. I haven't been able to get this to work.

Kim (or other posters with issues), you can use the following for the root folder:

#script:
RootFolder=~/Downloads/Movies
- or any folder you want to use this script for.

Rather than the absolute path (making it useful for all user accounts).

kimaldis wrote:Sorry ... and set the action to 'ignore'

Where we insert this command in the string?