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Organizes downloads folder automatically
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# Forked from @January's answer on StackOverflow. http://askubuntu.com/a/184265/123595 | |
#!/bin/bash | |
# define target directories | |
DOWNLOADS=$HOME/Downloads | |
VIDEOS=$HOME/Videos/ | |
PICTURES=$HOME/Pictures/ | |
DOCS=$HOME/Documents/ | |
MUSIC=$HOME/Music/ | |
COMPRESSED=$DOWNLOADS/compressed/ | |
SQL=$DOWNLOADS/sql/ | |
TORRENT=$DOWNLOADS/torrent/ | |
SOFTWARES=$DOWNLOADS/softwares/ | |
# this will generate directories in form /home/user/Downloads/archive-2016-11-28 | |
ARCHIVE=$DOWNLOADS/archive-`date +%Y-%m-%d` | |
cd $HOME | |
# create folder is not exists | |
if [ ! -d "$ARCHIVE" ] ; then mkdir "$ARCHIVE" ; fi | |
if [ ! -d "$COMPRESSED" ] ; then mkdir "$COMPRESSED" ; fi | |
if [ ! -d "$MUSIC" ] ; then mkdir "$MUSIC" ; fi | |
if [ ! -d "$SQL" ] ; then mkdir "$SQL" ; fi | |
if [ ! -d "$TORRENT" ] ; then mkdir "$TORRENT" ; fi | |
if [ ! -d "$SOFTWARES" ] ; then mkdir "$SOFTWARES" ; fi | |
# TARS, Engine up | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.{jpg,png,JPEG,jpeg,PNG,tif,tiff,TIF,TIFF,gif,GIF,psd} $PICTURES | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.{mov,avi,wmv} $VIDEOS | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.mp3 $MUSIC | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.{doc,docx,xls,xlsx,pdf,txt,csv} $DOCS | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.{zip,tar,tar.gz,tar.bz2} $COMPRESSED | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.torrent $TORRENT | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.sql $SQL | |
mv $DOWNLOADS/*.deb $SOFTWARES | |
# Move the remaining files to archive folder inside the Downaload folder | |
find $DOWNLOADS/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t "$ARCHIVE" |
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