Script: Find EPS/AI files, create & move to a sub-folder

Hi Guys, 

I just thought of a possible solution to this issue. What if we use the previous script and add this extra steps to the end? Could the script create the new folder and export the EPS/AI file into this file? Or is all this too much?

function main() {

        var inputFolder = Folder.selectDialog("Select a folder to process")
         if (inputFolder != null){
        var fileandfolderAr = scanSubFolders(inputFolder, /\.(ai|eps)$/i);
        var fileList = fileandfolderAr[0];
        }
        for (var i = fileList.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
        app.open(fileList[i]);
        var doc = app.activeDocument;
        try {
            var docLayers = doc.layers;
            var n = docLayers.length;
            docLayers[n-1].visible = true;
            docLayers[n-1].locked = false; 
            docLayers[n-1].remove();
            doc.save();
            doc.close(SaveOptions.NO);
        } catch (e) {

        }
    }
}

main()

function scanSubFolders(tFolder, myAI) {
var sFolders = [];
var allFiles = [];
sFolders[0] = tFolder;

for (var j = 0; j < sFolders.length; j++) {
var procFiles = sFolders[j].getFiles();

for (var i = 0; i < procFiles.length; i++) {
if (procFiles[i] instanceof File) {
if(myAI == undefined) {
allFiles.push(procFiles);
}

if (procFiles[i].fullName.search(myAI) != -1) {
allFiles.push(procFiles[i]);
  }
}

else if (procFiles[i] instanceof Folder) {
sFolders.push(procFiles[i]);
scanSubFolders(procFiles[i], myAI);
    }
  }
}
return [allFiles, sFolders];
}

I'd definitly use Node or CLI instead but technically you can write and execute BAT and other CLI syntax files from scripting. At the point you're doing this though, you may as well just execute the file from somewhere else, but if it's necessary as some step within a pre-existing script I can understand why there's a need:

var text = """echo You can execute batch files from JSX
pause""";

var file = File(Folder.desktop + "/test.bat");
file.open("w");
file.write(text);
file.close();

var result = file.execute();
alert(result); // Returns true if successful

When you run this, a BAT file is written to desktop and then scripting will execute it (or simulate a double-click action, so if it doesn't work via double-click you need to set up file associations), you should see a terminal window pop up and you can run shell commands this way. An issue with doing this is that the terminal will inherit OS focus -- Illustrator loses focus. Even if the last line is "exit" to close the terminal window, you still tend to lose program focus (that may not be an issue for you but it's an important distinction because it means you can't easily sandwich shell commands into normal scripts with seamless transitions).

this is more of a shell script project than an illustrator script project.

In illustrator, scripts don't have access to the file system this way. we can't just move and rearrange files as far as i know (and if we could, it's still probably not the right environment for this task). We can create folders and we can save files into those folders. But as far as i know that's pretty much it.