Filesortd

A Ruby DSL for automatically sorting your files based on rules. Like Hazel, but cross-platform, no GUI required.

Installation

$ gem install filesortd

If you're on OS X, also install osx-plist for things like downloaded_from (i.e. xattr support) to work:

$ gem install osx-plist

Usage

$ filesortd start yourconfig.rb

yourconfig.rb:

# DSL usage example

folder "/Users/myfreeweb/Downloads" do

  # Do things to files that match a glob or a regex
  pattern "*.mp3" do
    mv "/Users/myfreeweb/Music"

    # Do things if running on a particular OS
    os :osx do
      label :orange
    end
  end

  # Mac OS X saves the location you downloaded a file from
  downloaded_from %r{destroyallsoftware} do
    mv "/Users/myfreeweb/Movies/DAS"
    open_in :default
    # or
    open_in "MPlayerX"
  end

  # Match on the kind, also OS X only
  kind "Ruby Source" do
    label :red
  end

  # Match on Finder label, OS X
  label :green do
    mv "/Users/myfreeweb/Documents"
  end

  # Match all mp4 files downloaded from DAS
  match pattern: '*.mp4', downloaded_from: %r{destroyallsoftware} do
    label :gray
  end
end


# You can watch multiple folders at once

folders "/Users/myfreeweb/Pictures", "/opt/pictures" do

  # Do things to any files
  any do
    applescript 'tell app "Finder" to reveal theFile'
    label :blue
  end

  # Match by extension -- same as pattern "*.png"
  ext :png do
    pass "optipng"
    label :green
  end
end

Actions:

• contents (or read) -- get the contents
• rm (or remove, delete, unlink) -- remove
• trash -- put to trash (OS X/Linux, Linux requires trash-cli)
• cp (or copy) -- copy
• mv (or move) -- move/rename
• pipe(cmd) -- start the command, pass the file to stdin, get the stdout
• pass(cmd) -- start the command, pass the path to the file as an argument, get the stdout
• label(color) -- set the OS X Finder label (:none, :orange, :red, :yellow, :blue, :purple, :green, :gray or :grey)
• open_in(app) -- open the file using the OS X open command, use :default for the default app for the file type
• applescript(script) -- run provided AppleScript. Use theFile inside it to refer to the file matched

Contributors

• myfreeweb
• goshakkk