ianandhum/clean_dir

Simple python script to Clean Up your download directory and capable of working recursively along with support of custom configuration with regular expressions

Directory Cleaner

Simple python script to Clean up your download Directory. Categorises Each file in a directory and is capable of working recursively in a directory

Capabilities

• Parsing external json files to categorise each file type
• Categorise files based on their size (Minimum size currently)
• Recursively walk through subdirectories(Should be used carefully because it might alter directory structure completely)
• Work with any directory through command line

Platforms

• Linux
• Windows
• Mac(Not tested)

Options

• --dir [DIR] Directory to run against

• --config [CONFIG] JSON file in predefined format to sort files by its extension

• -r , --recursive Recursively Scan sub directories

• -c , --clean Clean empty directories created after categorisation

• -a , --all Scan all files (. files too)

• -d , --default Work with default folder (~/Downloads folder)

• -v , --verbose Show verbose output

• -h, --help show help and exit

Config Files

Sample format for configuration file --config

{
    "Categories":{
        "<Folder Name>": "<File Type in comma terminated list>",
        "Example" : ".type1,type2,type3"
    },
    "Sizes":{
        "<Folder Name>": {
            "file_cats": ["<Existing Folder Name in file_types.json>","..."],
            "min_size": " type:int in MegaBytes:  <Minimum File Size (Matches all files >= min_size)>"
        }
    },
    "FallbackDir":"Directory to put unknown files",
    "IgnoreFiles":[
      "<RegExp to mark a file ignored>",
      "..."
    ]
}