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Create sub-directories and organize files by date

I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example; -rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 DSCN1406....
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Create sub-directories and organize files by date from file name

I have been using the following script to organize my photos into "Date' Directories: for x in *.JPG; do d=$(date -r "$x" +%Y-%m-%d) mkdir -p "$d" mv -- "$x" "$d/" done This script works great. ...
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