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Auto organize files into your /Downloads folder
#!/bin/sh
# About
# Our disk drives get huge because, well, files end up everywhere (or maybe you are way better at this than I am).
# Over the past 5 years my drive has bloated and there are all kinds of files everywhere.
# The first step is to ORGANIZE everything into buckets that make "sense".
# This script will move certain file types into directories. THats the first step of
# organizing as I build the script. Eventually, this script will auto run at the
# end of the day via a cronjob so all files stay organized 100% of the time
# How to run: sh organize.sh
# TODO: Auto-create all the directories (or else theyll be a ton of failures).
# you need to have all these ~/Downloads directories created first
# TODO: Be able to supply an argument to the script, like organize.sh ~/Documents,
# you don't have to change directories to run this script
# Directories
find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} ~/Downloads \;
# Applications
find . -iname '*.dmg' -type f -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Applications \;
find . -iname '*.pkg' -type f -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Applications \;
find . -iname '*.sh' -type f -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Applications \;
# CompressedFiles
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.gz' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/CompressedFiles \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.zip' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/CompressedFiles \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.tgz' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/CompressedFiles \;
# Media
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.mov' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Movies/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.mpg' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Movies/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.mp4' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Movies/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.mp3' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Movies/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.wav' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Movies/ \;
# Documents
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.md' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.pdf' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.doc' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.txt' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.pages' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.epub' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.html' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.xml' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Documents/ \;
# Spreadsheets
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.xls' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Spreadsheets/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.csv' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Spreadsheets/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.pages' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Spreadsheets/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.xlsx' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Spreadsheets/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.numbers' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Spreadsheets/ \;
# Images
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.jpg' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Images/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.jpeg' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Images/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.png' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Images/ \;
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.tif' -exec mv {} ~/Downloads/Images/ \;
# Delete
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname '*.crdownload' -exec rm {} \;
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