Filesortd
A Ruby DSL for automatically sorting your files based on rules. Like Hazel, but cross-platform, no GUI required.
Installation
$ gem install filesortd
If you're on OS X, also install osx-plist for things like downloaded_from
(i.e. xattr support) to work:
$ gem install osx-plist
Usage
$ filesortd start yourconfig.rb
yourconfig.rb:
### This works everywhere:
folder "/Users/myfreeweb/Downloads" do
# Using a single matcher
pattern "*.mp3" do
mv "/Users/myfreeweb/Music"
# Do things if running on a particular OS
os :linux do
mv "/opt/music"
end
# Note that actions like `mv` update the location, so you can use them multiple times
end
# Using multiple matchers
match pattern: "*.psd", pattern: %r{doc[1-2]+} do
rm
end
end
### This only works on Mac OS X
os :osx do
folder "/Users/myfreeweb/Downloads" do
downloaded_from %r{destroyallsoftware} do
mv "/Users/myfreeweb/Movies/DAS"
open_in :default
# or
open_in "MPlayerX"
end
kind "Ruby Source" do
label :red
end
label :green do
mv "/Users/myfreeweb/Documents"
applescript 'tell app "Finder" to reveal theFile'
end
# This is the multiple matcher syntax
match pattern: '*.mp4', downloaded_from: %r{destroyallsoftware} do
label :gray
end
end
end
### You can watch multiple folders at once
folders "/Users/myfreeweb/Pictures", "/opt/pictures" do
# Do things to any files
any do
label :blue
end
# Match by extension -- same as pattern "*.png"
ext :png do
pass "optipng"
label :green
end
end
Matchers
any
-- any filepattern(pat)
-- files that conform topat
(regexp or glob)ext(extn)
(orextension
) -- files that have an extension ofextn
kind(knd)
-- files that have Spotlight kind ofknd
label(lbl)
-- files that have Finder label oflbl
downloaded_from(url)
-- files that were downloaded from url matchingurl
Matchers can be called either by themselves
label :gray do
kind 'Ruby Source' do
end
end
or grouped into a single statement (preferred)
match label: :gray, kind: 'Ruby Source' do
end
in Ruby 1.8:
match :label => :gray, :kind => 'Ruby Source' do
end
Actions
contents
(orread
) -- get the contentsrm
(orremove
,delete
,unlink
) -- removetrash
-- put to trash (OS X/Linux, Linux requires trash-cli)cp
(orcopy
) -- copymv
(ormove
) -- move/renamepipe(cmd)
-- start the command, pass the file to stdin, get the stdoutpass(cmd)
-- start the command, pass the path to the file as an argument, get the stdoutlabel(color)
-- set the OS X Finder label (:none, :orange, :red, :yellow, :blue, :purple, :green, :gray or :grey)open_in(app)
-- open the file using the OS Xopen
command, use :default for the default app for the file typeapplescript(script)
-- run provided AppleScript. UsetheFile
inside it to refer to the file matched
Contributors
License
MIT.