I recently stumbled upon about Classifier app, which automatically organize files in your current directory, by classifying them into folders of Xls, Docs, .png, .jpeg, vidoe, music, pdfs, images, ISO, etc.
If I’m not wrong, all our download folder is pretty Sloppy compare with others because most of the downloaded files are sitting over there and we can’t delete blindly, which leads to lose some important files. Also not possible to create bunch of folders based on the files and move appropriate files into folder manually.
So, How to avoid this ? Better to organize files with help of classifier, later we can delete unnecessary files easily. Classifier app is written in Python.
How to Organize directory ? Simply navigate to corresponding directory, where you want to organize/classify your files and run the classifier command, it will take few mins or more depends on the directory files count or quantity.
Make a note, there is no undo option, if you want to go back. So, finalize before run classifier in directory. Also, it wont move folders.
Installing Classifier in Linux through pip :
pip is a recommended tool for installing Python packages in Linux. Use pip command instead of package manager to get latest build.
For Debian based systems.
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
For RHEL/CentOS based systems.
$ sudo yum install python-pip
For Fedora
$ sudo dnf install python-pip
For openSUSE
$ sudo zypper install python-pip
For Arch Linux based systems
$ sudo pacman -S python-pip
Finally run the pip tool to install Classifier on Linux.
$ sudo pip install classifier
Organizing pattern files into specific folders :
First I will go with default option which will organize pattern files into specific folders. This will create bunch of directories based on the file types and move them into specific folders.
See my directory, how its looking now (Before run classifier command).
$ pwd /home/magi/classifier $ ls -lh total 139M -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 4.5M Mar 21 21:21 Aaluma_Doluma.mp3 -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 26K Mar 21 21:12 battery-monitor_0.4-xenial_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 24K Mar 21 21:12 buku-command-line-bookmark-manager-linux.png -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 0 Mar 21 21:43 config.php -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 25 Mar 21 21:13 core.py -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 101K Mar 21 21:12 drawing.svg -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 86M Mar 21 21:12 go1.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 28 Mar 21 21:13 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 27 Mar 21 21:13 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 48M Apr 30 2016 Kabali Tamil Movie _ Official Teaser _ Rajinikanth _ Radhika Apte _ Pa Ranjith-9mdJV5-eias.webm -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 28 Mar 21 21:12 magi1.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 66 Mar 21 21:12 ppa.py -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 1.1K Mar 21 21:12 Release.html -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 45K Mar 21 21:12 v0.4.zip
Navigate to corresponding directory where you want to organize files, then run classifier command without any option to achieve it.
$ classifier Scanning Files Done!
See the Directory look, after run classifier command
$ ls -lh total 44K drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Archives -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 0 Mar 21 21:43 config.php -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 25 Mar 21 21:13 core.py drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 DEBPackages drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Documents -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 28 Mar 21 21:13 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 27 Mar 21 21:13 index.php drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Pictures -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 66 Mar 21 21:12 ppa.py -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 1.1K Mar 21 21:12 Release.html drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Videos
Make a note, this will organize only general category files such as docs, audio, video, pictures, archive, etc and wont organize .py, .html, .php, etc.,.
Classify specific file types into specific folder
To Classify specific file types into specific folder, just add -st (mention the file type) & -sf (folder name) followed by classifier command.
For best understanding, I’m going to move .py, .html & .php files into Development folder. See the exact command to achieve it.
$ classifier -st .py .html .php -sf "Development" Scanning Files Done!
If the folder doesn’t exit, it will create the new one and organize the files into that. See the following output. It created Development directory and moved all the files inside the directory.
$ ls -lh total 28K drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Archives drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 DEBPackages drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:51 Development drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 magi magi 4.0K Mar 21 21:28 Videos
For better clarification, i have listed Development folder files.
$ ls -lh Development/ total 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 0 Mar 21 21:43 config.php -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 25 Mar 21 21:13 core.py -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 28 Mar 21 21:13 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 27 Mar 21 21:13 index.php -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 0 Mar 21 21:43 ppa.py -rw-r--r-- 1 magi magi 0 Mar 21 21:43 Release.html
To Organize files by Date. It will organize current directory files based on the date.
$ classifier -dt
To save organized files in different location, add -d (source directory) & -o (destination directory) followed by classifier command.
$ classifier -d /home/magi/organizer -o /home/magi/2g
