File Filer; sorts files into structured directory tree. Tree can be structured based on various designs such as date (file modification time), file hash, file prefix etc
There are various filing tree structures available:
- Modified Timestamp
- MD5 hash of file name
- MD5 hash of file contents (slower)
- Leading characters of file name
- MIME type of file
An example tree (directories only) filing to a depth of 2 (YYYY/Month/):
├── 2014
│ ├── 01-Jan
│ ├── 02-Feb
│ ├── ...
│ ├── 11-Nov
│ └── 12-Dec
└── 2015
├── 01-Jan
├── 02-Feb
├── 03-Mar
├── 04-Apr
└── 05-May
An example tree (directories only) filing to a depth of 2 characters:
├── 2
│ ├── 2
│ └── b
├── a
│ ├── 1
│ └── e
└── e
├── 1
└── 7
Similar to filing by hash, but don't bother to hash anything first (just take the first X characters of the filename).
An example tree (including files) filing to a depth of 2 characters:
├── e
│ ├── l
│ │ └── elephant
│ └── x
│ └── example
├── f
│ ├── f
│ │ └── ffiler
│ └── i
│ └── file
└── t
└── e
└── test
An example tree (including files):
├── application
│ └── postscript
│ └── mylogo.eps
└── image
├── jpeg
│ ├── mylogo.jpg
│ ├── yourlogo.jpg
│ └── herlogo.jpeg
└── png
└── hislogo.png
Most of the filing methods require a depth for the resulting tree structure. Valid depths depend on the filing method.
For string-based methods (MD5 hashes or filenames) the depth is the number of characters (positive integer) to build the tree with.
Example: ffiler -ss -d2 (Sort to the second character as above)
For timestamp-based methods (modified time) the depth is the timestamp granularity:
y= Year (eg2010/)m= Month (eg2010/01-Jan/)d= Day (eg2010/01-Jan/15/)H= Hour (eg2010/01-Jan/15/18/)M= Minute (eg2010/01-Jan/15/18/20/)S= Second (eg2010/01-Jan/15/18/20/34/)
Example: ffiler -sm -dm (Sort to the "month" level)
ffiler can move (default), copy, symlink or hardlink files into the destination tree. The flags for these are:
-M Move
-C Copy
-L Symbolic Link
-H Hard Link
PKGBUILD is in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ffiler-git/