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CLEANUP - LINUX & UNIX

Introduction

We all are victims of messy folders, containing lots of file types, ranging from music files to pictures, web-files, etc. A perfect example of such is our Downloads folder.

This tool was built for me and you to help us cleanup such folder with just a single command from the terminal.

By cleanup, it doesn't delete your files : ).

• This tool creates a folder called CLEANUP in the directory it is being ran.
• After this, it creates group folders (eg. Documents, Music, etc) inside the newly created CLEANUP folder.
• Finally, it moves your files using their extensions to group them into the best-suiting new folder.

After these, you decide what to do with the grouped folders!

Installation

Go to your home directory on your terminal:

$ cd ~

Clone cleanup into your home directory:

$ git clone https://github.com/hfally/cleanup.git

Add $HOME/cleanup/bin to your PATH.

How to add to your PATH

Run the command below. There is 70% chances you are using the default bash terminal, but if you happen to be using another terminal like zsh switch .baschrc for .zshrc in the commands below.

$ echo 'export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/cleanup/bin"' >> .bashrc

You will need to source your .bashrc or logout/login (or restart the terminal) for the updates to take effect. To source your .bashrc, simply run:

$ source ~/.bashrc

if you use zsh or any other shell, follow the same route (replace .bashrc with .zshrc in the commands above as stated previously)

Basic Usage

• Go to the folder you want to cleanup from the terminal

  $ cd /path-to-files/

  REPLACE path-to-files with the correct path to those files, e.g Downloads

• To confirm if cleanup is properly installed, run:

  $ cleanup help

  If this returns how to use the tool, then you're good to go, else, go through this manual again.

• Run the command below to do the cleanup

  $ cleanup start

Watch your folder get cleaned up.

That's it!

You can always get help through $ cleanup help

Undo/Revert

To undo/revert cleanup, run:

$ cleanup undo

Update

To pull latest updates, simply run:

$ cleanup update

OR

go into the cleanup directory: if you followed the above instructions, run:

$ cd ~/cleanup

then run:

$ git pull

Supported OS

• Linux
• UNIX
• windows (using git bash): this hasn't been fully tested

License

Cleanup is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

Contribution

For contribution and personal bug reporting, send a mail to the author [email protected]