Media Copier

Copies photos and video files from multiple sources to one destination directory.

Ideal for moving photos from iPhoto or Mac backups to one destination.

Description

This shell script is intended to be used in Unix environment to copy specific photo and video files.

Looks for the following file types: jpg, jpeg, mov, mpg, png.

Usage

This scripts expects two inputs:

1. origin directory
2. destination directory

Open terminal and browse to the directory where you have cloned this project.

./copy_media.sh /absolute/path_to_origin /absolute/path_to_destination

Example

This example illustrates that all image files present under pics directory and its subdirectories will be moved to your destination directory.

pics
|____Jan
| |____1.png
|____Feb
| |____week1
| | |____2.png
| |____week2
| | |____3.png
|____Mar
| |____4.png

Running this script will move all images under pics/ directory and its subdirectories to your destination directory e.g. new_pics/

./copy_media.sh ~/pics ~/new_pics

new_pics
|____1.png
|____2.png
|____3.png
|____4.png