dirculese

Dirculese organizes your directories so you don't have to.

Installation

go get github.com/moismailzai/dirculese

Usage

Before you can use dirculese, you will need to create a configuration file. By default, dirculese will try to load a file called .dirculese.json in your home directory. Here's what a basic configuration file looks like:

{
  "Directories": [
    {
      "Path": "/path/to/a/source/directory/that/you/want/to/keep/organized/with/dirculese/rules",
      "Rules": [
        {
          "Target": "/path/to/a/destination/directory/where/items/matching/your/rule/will/be/moved",
          "Delete": false,
          "Handler": "ExtensionHandler",
          "Extensions": [
            "png"
          ],
          "PrefixDelimiters": [
            "__"
          ],
          "SuffixDelimiters": [
            "--"
          ],
          "SizeMax": 0,
          "SizeMin": 0,
          "DateMax": 0,
          "DateMin": 0
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

This simple configuration only has a single directory with a single rule, but you can have as many directories and rules as you want (dirculese will parse them in sequence).

If want to place your configuration file somewhere else, just call dirculese with the -config flag:

dirculese -config /full/path/to/your/config.json

By default, dirculese runs silently but you can tell it to be more verbose with the -verbose flag:

dirculese -verbose

Even when running silently, dirculese logs everything to dirculese.log which it saves in your home directory.

Dirculese returns an exit code of 0 if everything went well and an exit code of 1 if something went wrong.

Dirculese handlers

For now, only the ExtensionHandler, PrefixHandler, and SuffixHandler exist, but there's plans for a DateHandler and a SizeHandler in the future.

ExtensionHandler

ExtensionHandler iterates through all of the files in the directory that it is managing, and if any file has an extension that's listed in the Extensions array, that file will either be moved to the Target directory or deleted, depending on whether Delete is true or false. You can also add an empty entry to the Extensions array if you want to target files that do not have extensions.

PrefixHandler

PrefixHandler iterates through all of the files in the directory that it is managing and targets any file whose name portion (excluding extension) includes a substring in the PrefixDelimiters array. Matching files are either deleted (if Delete is true) or moved into a subdirectory of Target. Subdirectories are named using the portion of the file's name that precedes the prefix delimiter and are automatically created if they don't already exist.

For example, consider the below file listing:

pre1__test1.txt
pre1__test2.txt
pre1__test3.txt
pre2--test1.txt
pre2--test2.txt
pre2--test3.txt
pre3++test1.txt

And the below rules:

"Rules": [
    {
      "Target": "/path/to/a/target/directory",
      "Delete": false,
      "Handler": "PrefixHandler",
      "Extensions": [],
      "PrefixDelimiters": [
        "__",
        "--"
      ],
      "SuffixDelimiters": [],
      "SizeMax": 0,
      "SizeMin": 0,
      "DateMax": 0,
      "DateMin": 0
    },{
      "Target": "/path/to/a/target/directory",
      "Delete": true,
      "Handler": "PrefixHandler",
      "Extensions": [],
      "PrefixDelimiters": [
        "++",
      ],
      "SuffixDelimiters": [],
      "SizeMax": 0,
      "SizeMin": 0,
      "DateMax": 0,
      "DateMin": 0
    }
  ]

In this case, there would be two new subdirectories created in /path/to/a/target/directory: pre1 and pre2.

The contents of pre1 would be:

pre1__test1.txt
pre1__test2.txt
pre1__test3.txt

The contents of pre2 would be:

pre2--test1.txt
pre2--test2.txt
pre2--test3.txt

Besides pre1 and pre2, /path/to/a/target/directory would be empty because the last file, pre3++test1.txt would have been deleted (based on the second rule).

SuffixHandler

SuffixHandler iterates through all of the files in the directory that it is managing and targets any file whose name portion (excluding extension) includes a substring in the SuffixDelimiters array. Matching files are either deleted (if Delete is true) or moved into a subdirectory of Target. Subdirectories are named using the portion of the file's name that follows the prefix delimiter and are automatically created if they don't already exist.

See the examples from PrefixHandler.

Contributing

Contributions are happily accepted.