How can I create a Nautilus script that moves a the selected file into a new folder with the same name?
My starting point: /home/user/123 here 123 is a file with no extension
My goal here is to achieve this result: /home/user/123/123 here we have the same file 123 inside new folder also named 123
I can't figure this out, because every atempt I've made gave me the result: mkdir: cannot create directory `123': File exists
You can't have two files by the same name at the same time, so you'll need to first create the directory under a temporary name, then move the file into it, then rename the directory. Or alternatively rename the file to a temporary name, create the directory, and finally move the file.
I see that Nautilus scripts can be written in any language. You can do this with the most pervasive scripting language, /bin/sh.
#!/bin/sh
set -e
for file do
case "$file" in
*/*) TMPDIR="${file%/*}"; file="${file##*/}";;
*) TMPDIR=".";;
esac
temp="$(mktemp -d)"
mv -- "$file" "$temp"
mv -- "$temp" "$TMPDIR/$file"
done
Explanations:
set -e aborts the script on error.for loop iterates over the arguments of the script.case block sets TMPDIR to the directory containing the file. It works whether the argument contains a base name or a file path with a directory part.mktemp -d creates a directory with a random name in $TMPDIR.If you want to remove the file's extension from the directory, change the last mv call to
mv -- "$temp" "$TMPDIR/${file%.*}"
${file%.*} takes the value of file and removes the suffix that matches .*. If the file has no extension, the name is left unchanged.
As you can see explained in here,
You cannot have a file and folder with the same name because directories are just a special kind of file
What I suggest is to rename > create > move with command validation && between them
e.g.
mv 123 123_tmp && mkdir 123 && mv 123_tmp 123/
You can use absolute paths
