A tool for sorting a directory into more managable sub-directories.

Running file-sorter on a directory starts a service that watches for 'added file events'. On such an event, the added file is moved into an appropriate sub-directory. Unless modified by a configuration file this is a directory matching the file extension.

Files are moved after the event ModifiedAttritbute. This is the last event sent when files are downloaded. For curl and friends the last event sent is CloseWrite, and to solve this we try to move the file 0.5 seconds after getting a CloseWrite, if the file still exists at the original path.

Where files are moved can be customized by a configuration file.

zip -> ignore
png -> images
jpg -> images
txt -> docs
pdf -> docs

Here ignore is a keyword such that any file with the extension zip will be ignored. png, jpg are moved to a sub-directory named images/ txt, pdf are moved to a sub-directory named docs/

If the target directory does not exist it will be created.

If there are name clashes then the file being moved will be renamed accordingly. For example, assume $WATCHEDDIR/pdfs/assignment.pdf exist already, then when assignment.pdf is added to $WATCHEDDIR, assignment.pdf will be moved to $WATCHEDDIR/pdfs/assignment(1).pdf.

Existing files can be sorted by providing the flag (-s|--sort-once). This will not make file-sorter watch a directory, but rather sort the directory and all its files into sub-directories.