BASH SMASH REHASH
I'm sharing a recent script I wrote that might be helpful.
I had a picture folder on my NAS that was just simply way too large for use on a relatively slow Wifi connection. Essentially hundreds of picture and video files from our family photos.
What would happen on our computers is that when you want to open one file it takes forever as the file viewer tries to cache all the images in the folder to make flipping through them faster. That's a nice feature, but not when the folder / directory is dozens to hundreds of gigabytes in size.
This script essentially prompts for which folder to sort (must be absolute), then prompts for how many files the user wants to sort per folder. The example below prompts to sort a directory with around 200 files into directories of 20 files apiece.
Link to the code: autosort.sh
I included a lot of comments so hopefully the script makes sense. Again just a useful tool and might be helpful for those interested in shell scripting.
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