First you need to choose which files to work with. By default, all files in current directory are selected.
./FileManipulation
If you want select all files from another directory, you can use -Dir argument.
./FileManipulation -Dir my_dir/files
You can also specify files from that directory using -Mask argument.
./FileManipulation -Mask *.txt
By default, all changes will be executed in the selected directory (selected files can be changed). If you want to write the result to another directory, you can specify it with the -Out argument.
./FileManipulation -Out out_dir
After you select input and output of script, you can perform various actions.
You can add content (text) to all selected files using -Add argument. By default, new content will be added to the end of file.
./FileManipulation -Add "new content"
You can also specify on which line the content will be inserted with -Line argument.
./FileManipulation -Add "new content" -Line 1
If you need to delete the old contents of files and set new one, -Set can be used.
./FileManipulation -Set "new content"
You can also sort files into subdirectories according their metadata, e. g. year of creation.
./FileManipulation -DirSort Year
Allowed values for -DirSort argument are:
Year– year of creation,Month– month of creation,Day– day of creation,City– city where the file was created (only for images with Exif information).