Consider you have 2,248 files in a directory, each containing one single sound program for your favourite Z1 synth. You need to load them into the synth individually, listen to them and to sort them in directories. Painful it would be.
Fortunately, all sounds are set to one of 18 predefined categories like guitar, synth hard, synth soft, piano, organ and the like. In the SysEx files, the category is coded into the 26. byte. So it was easy to sort the files into subdirectories using a couple of lines of Ruby code (sorry for the misformatting):
#! /usr/bin/ruby
require 'fileutils.rb'
def determineCategory( filename )
file = File.open( filename, "rb:binary" )
fileContents = file.read
category = fileContents[25] + 1
# puts filename, category
unless File.directory?(category.to_s)
Dir.mkdir( category.to_s )
end
FileUtils.mv( filename, category.to_s )
end
Dir.glob( '*.[Ss][Yy][Xx]' ) do |entry|
determineCategory entry
end
This language seems to be very powerful. Need to do more with it.
I don’t know the ruby language, but as far as I understand this code this would have been easy to do in shell as well :)