Directory Cleaner

Simple python script to Clean up your download Directory. Categorises Each file in a directory and is capable of working recursively in a directory

Capabilities

• Parsing external json files to categorise each file type
• Categorise files based on their size (Minimum size currently)
• Recursively walk through subdirectories(Should be used carefully because it might alter directory structure completely)
• Work with any directory through command line

Platforms

• Linux
• Windows
• Mac(Not tested)

Options

• --dir [DIR] Directory to run against

• --config [CONFIG] JSON file in predefined format to sort files by its extension

• -r , --recursive Recursively Scan sub directories

• -c , --clean Clean empty directories created after categorisation

• -a , --all Scan all files (. files too)

• -d , --default Work with default folder (~/Downloads folder)

• -v , --verbose Show verbose output

• -h, --help show help and exit

Config Files

Sample format for configuration file --config

{
    "Categories":{
        "<Folder Name>": "<File Type in comma terminated list>",
        "Example" : ".type1,type2,type3"
    },
    "Sizes":{
        "<Folder Name>": {
            "file_cats": ["<Existing Folder Name in file_types.json>","..."],
            "min_size": " type:int in MegaBytes:  <Minimum File Size (Matches all files >= min_size)>"
        }
    },
    "FallbackDir":"Directory to put unknown files",
    "IgnoreFiles":[
      "<RegExp to mark a file ignored>",
      "..."
    ]
}