Notes

# FILE PROCESSING SCRIPT

echo UNZIPPING FILES... # prints to the user that the script is executing

cd ~ # starts at the home directory

mkdir sorted_files # makes directory sorted_files

unzip -q ~/coursework/unsorted_files.zip -d ~/sorted_files # unzips the unsorted_files, quietly (without spamming terminal window), into the user's home directory

cd sorted_files # changes to directory sorted_files

echo ENTER YOUR THREE FILE TYPES # prompts user input

read TYPE1 TYPE2 TYPE3 # reads the user's three inputs and assigns them to Strings TYPE1, TYPE2, TYPE3

mkdir $TYPE1 $TYPE2 $TYPE3 # makes three directories based on user input types

cd unsorted_files # changes to unsorted_files directory

mv *.$TYPE1 ~/sorted_files/$TYPE1 # moves all files ending in .TYPE1 to the corresponding directory

mv *.$TYPE2 ~/sorted_files/$TYPE2 # moves all files ending in .TYPE2 to the corresponding directory

mv *.$TYPE3 ~/sorted_files/$TYPE3 # moves all files ending in .TYPE3 to the corresponding directory

cd .. # changes to parent directory (sorted_files)

mv unsorted_files misc # all remaining unsorted files are moved into a new directory, misc

ls -hs -S ~/sorted_files/$TYPE1 > $TYPE1.txt # lists all the files in TYPE1 directory by size order, in human format, and writes them to a new text file - TYPE1.txt

mv $TYPE1.txt $TYPE1 # moves TYPE1.txt to the TYPE1 directory

ls -hs -S ~/sorted_files/$TYPE2 > $TYPE2.txt # lists all the files in TYPE2 directory by size order, in human format, and writes them to a new text file - TYPE2.txt

mv $TYPE2.txt $TYPE2 # moves TYPE2.txt to the TYPE2 directory

ls -hs -S ~/sorted_files/$TYPE3 > $TYPE3.txt # lists all the files in TYPE3 directory by size order, in human format, and writes them to a new text file - TYPE3.txt

mv $TYPE3.txt $TYPE3 # moves TYPE3.txt to the TYPE3 directory

ls -hs -S ~/sorted_files/misc > misc.txt # lists all the files in misc directory by size order, in human format, and writes them to a new text file - misc.txt

mv misc.txt misc # moves misc.txt to the misc directory

cat >> all_files.txt << STOP
------------------------------------
------These are the $TYPE1 files------
------------------------------------
STOP
# creates a new text file called all_files.txt and writes to it a formmatted header for the TYPE1 files

ls -r $TYPE1 >> all_files.txt # appends the reverse list of contents of TYPE1 directory to all_files.txt

cat >> all_files.txt << STOP
------------------------------------
------These are the $TYPE2 files-------
------------------------------------
STOP
# appends a formatted header for the TYPE2 files to all_files.txt

ls -r $TYPE2 >> all_files.txt # appends the reverse list of contents of TYPE2 directory to all_files.txt

cat >> all_files.txt << STOP
------------------------------------
------These are the $TYPE3 files-------
------------------------------------
STOP
# appends a formatted header for the TYPE3 files to all_files.txt

ls -r $TYPE3 >> all_files.txt # appends the reverse list of contents of TYPE3 directory to all_files.txt

cat >> all_files.txt << STOP
------------------------------------
------These are the misc files------
------------------------------------
STOP
# appends a formatted header for the misc files to all_files.txt

ls -r misc >> all_files.txt # appends the reverse list of contents of misc directory to all_files.txt

echo FILES PROCESSED # prints to user that script has finished executing

# In the scripts current state, my script meets all the coursework requirements as it unzips the unsorted_files.zip and creates directories for all the file types with the appropriate output text files. My aim was to make this script user-friendly. When the script runs it is quite user friendly as it informs the user that they are unzipping the files and again once the files are unzipped. It also promts the user to input their three file types that the script will sort into different directories. Also once the script has successfully ran it informs the user. I implemented these echo commands to the user because I wanted the script to feel intuitive. In my output files I also used easy to read formats. I approached this task by putting commentary in my script from the start, this helped me when coming back to the task as I could easily see what each line did without confusion. As this additional documentation helped me a lot, in future tasks, I would definitely use more documentation and planning before getting bogged down with script commands.