ffiler

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

Usage

Filing Method

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

Modified Timestamp

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

By MD5 Hash

An example tree (directories only) filing to a depth of 2 characters:

├── 2
│   ├── 2
│   └── b
├── a
│   ├── 1
│   └── e
└── e
    ├── 1
    └── 7

By Filename

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

Mime type

An example tree (including files):

├── application
│   └── postscript
│       └── mylogo.eps
└── image
    ├── jpeg
    │   ├── mylogo.jpg
    │   ├── yourlogo.jpg
    │   └── herlogo.jpeg
    └── png
        └── hislogo.png

Filing Depth

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 (eg 2010/)
• m = Month (eg 2010/01-Jan/)
• d = Day (eg 2010/01-Jan/15/)
• H = Hour (eg 2010/01-Jan/15/18/)
• M = Minute (eg 2010/01-Jan/15/18/20/)
• S = Second (eg 2010/01-Jan/15/18/20/34/)

Example: ffiler -sm -dm (Sort to the "month" level)

Action

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

Installation

Arch Linux

PKGBUILD is in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ffiler-git/