Create automv script

Automv script will allow a cronjob to easily move files from one dir to
another based on a find regex query. You can dynamically set what files
to look for and where using .conf files in the automv.d folder present
next to the script - or by setting its location in AUTOMV_DIR.

Dev note: I specifically avoided using $HOME/.local/automv.d/ because my
specific use case the user whose cron this will be in doesn't have a
home directory. An improvement could be expanding the smart defaults to
doing something like:
        if [[ -n "$HOME" ]]; then
                if [[ -d $HOME/.local/automv.d ]]; then
                        # use that
                else # etc
        else # etc

But I don't like long bash if/else nesting so I figured just set a local
default otherwise override in the env

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+if [[ -n "$AUTOMV_DIR" ]]; then
+  automvdir=$AUTOMV_DIR
+else
+  automvdir=$(dirname "$0")/automv.d
+fi
+
+function extract {
+  local file=$1
+  local prop=$2
+  grep "^${prop}=.*$" $file | cut -d '=' -f2
+}
+
+function automv {
+  local query=$1
+  local source=$2
+  local target=$3
+  echo "Moving files in $source that match '$query' to $target"
+  find $source -type f \( -regex "${query}" ! -iname ".*" \) | xargs -I '{}' mv {} $target/
+}
+
+echo "Executing automv functions from $automvdir"
+for file in $automvdir/*.conf
+do
+  echo "found $file"
+  if [[ -f $file ]]; then
+    # Extract file configs
+    query=$(extract $file "query")
+    sourced=$(extract $file "source")
+    target=$(extract $file "target")
+
+    automv $query $sourced $target
+  fi
+done