Simple & Capable files arranger

Arranger is a CLI file arranger written in Perl
It cleans up your Directory by moving files to their corresponding Directory by their file extension
jpg, png, jpeg webp -> Images
mp4, mkv, avi, flv -> Videos
and other common filetype extensions

Arranger can

• control maxdepth when arranging
• delete empty Directories
• save logs of what exactly happend
• revert the move using logfile
• move only specific files by provided file extensions & Directory
• arrange more than one Directory
• move unrecognised filetypes to 'Other' Directory

Its just a perl script download it make it executable and put somewhere in your $PATH

with wget

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anhsirk0/file-arranger/master/arranger.pl -O arranger

with curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anhsirk0/file-arranger/master/arranger.pl --output arranger

making it executable

chmod +x arranger

arranger [dirs] [options]

will arrange current Directory
see examples for detailed usage

arranger -ext py -dir Python

arranger -rev -logfile arrange_log

arranger -no-log -no-unknown

arranger folder1 folder2

arranger -dry-run

arranger mydir1 mydir2 mydir3

will arrange mydir1 mydir2 mydir3 Directories one by one

arranger -no-log

arrange current Directory and wont save logfile

arranger -delete-empty 

arrange current Directory and also delete empty Directories

arranger -delete-empty -no-arrange

only delete empty Directories , wont arrange

arranger -no-unknown 

arrange current Directory and wont move files with unrecognised extensions

arranger -ext pl -dir "Perl" 

move all files with pl extension to Directory 'Perl'

arranger -ext jpg png jpeg svg -dir "Images" 

move all files with any of {jpg, png, jpeg, svg} extension to Directory 'Images'

you need to create a file ~/.config/arranger/arranger.conf

you can download the sample config file and move it into the config Directory

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anhsirk0/file-arranger/master/arranger.conf

with curl

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anhsirk0/file-arranger/master/arranger.conf --output arranger.conf

mv arranger.conf ~/.config/arranger/arranger.conf

• everything should be single space separated(no trailing spaces)
• first word of line would be Directory name rest would be file extensions associated with that Directory

-m or --maxdepth=INT specify maxdepth (> 1)
-h or --help show this help message
-dry or --dry-run show what will happen without actually arranging
-v or --verbose print file name while moving
-rev or --revert revert the move (require a logfile)
-log or --logfile=STR specify logfile (required for reverting)
-no-log dont save log
-no-unknown dont move unrecognised filetypes
-no-arrange dont move any file (helpful if you only want to delete empty dirs)
-delete-empty delete empty directories (if any)
-ext or --extensions=STRs specify extension(s) to move (requires a Directory)
-dir or --directory=STR specify the Directory to move files in (required by -ext)