tidy-files

tidy-files is a command line tool to tidy up the files in folder, organized and move them to sub-folders by extension name. I found my Download folder on my mac is messy, this tool help it goes slightly better.

e.g. you have a folder with files like below:

/Download/a.txt  
/Download/b.txt  
/Download/c.doc  
/Download/d.doc
/Download/e.jpg

after running the command

tidy-files

It will be tidy up as below (grouping by file name extension)

/Download/txt/a.txt  
/Download/txt/b.txt  
/Download/doc/c.doc  
/Download/doc/d.doc
/Download/jpg/e.jpg

If the target file path already existed, it will append the timestamp to the file name to avoid overwriting. e.g

/Download/jpg/e.jpg (existing file)
/Download/jpg/e-20181114_152311.jpg (new moved file)

Limitation

• Only test on MAC, haven't try out on Windows yet
• As util.promisify is used in source code, only node 8 or greater is supported.

Install and run

npm install -g tidy-files
tidy-files  

if you get npx installed, try

npx tidy-files

if you want to rollback the changes, run

tidy-files --rollback