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+# sort-photorec
+A BASH script that sorts the files that photorec recovers into folders by their file extension
+
+photorec is an amazing tool, but it's hard to process the files that it recovers. They usually don't have the original names, and they're all dumped into a single folder.
+sort-photorec makes photorec more useful by putting all the files with a given extension into their own folder.
+It handles files without extensions by putting them in a separate folder named "No File Extension".