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package to move and manage folders? (whiskers.bim.boats)
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Hi,

I'm looking for a package that will allow me to configure some rules for moving folders and then watch a folder and automatically move folders or files that match rules to a certain other directory. Does something like this exist?

The use case is that I have data being saved to a single directory by other devices, and then I would like to reorganize it based on the file or folder name.

Or anyone have any other ideas of how to do this?

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[–] Sulinstajn@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can use find utility for that. I'm not at Linux machine right now, so maybe I can make mistake in commands, but something like this should work:

find /path/to/data/folder -name "type1name" -exec mv -t /path/to/dest/folder {} +

In this example, command find every file containing "type1name" in its name in folder /path/to/data/folder and move it into /path/to/dest/folder.

So if you have folder "~/data/all_data" containing files like "temperature_2023-06-30.csv", " temperature_2023-06-29.csv", "power_2023-06-30.csv" and "power_2023-06-29.csv", do:

mkdir ~/data/temperature

mkdir ~/data/power

find ~/data/all_data -name "temperature*" -exec mv -t ~/data/temperature {} +

find ~/data/all_data -name "power*" -exec mv -t ~/data/ {} +

More, you can tweak it into for examplee filtering according to current date and run that script every day.