dir-watcher

README

dir-watcher

My automation for making sure the Downloads folder doesn't get messy.

What does it do?

It watches one or more directory for file system changes, moving old and new files to other directories where these files feel more appropriate in. For example:

"family-photo.jpeg" > /home/user/Pictures "important-paper.pdf > /home/user/Documents/PDF

Rules

The program uses a JSON file to know where to move files to. This JSON uses the example schema:

{
    "watch": [
        "~/Downloads"
    ],
    "move": [
        {
            "path": "~/Pictures",
            "ext": [
                "png",
                "webp",
                "svg",
                "jpeg",
                "jpg",
                "tff"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "unknown": "~/Misc"
}

An extensive example can be seen in rules.json.