File Organizer

A handy utility for Quick Cleaning & Organizing🧹

About
File Organizer is a utility that helps to manage files and organize them inside separate folders.

Use
For organizing multiple types of files such as .mp3, .mp4, .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .txt, and many more stored in a folder ( eg. download ).
Now, you have a powerful handy tool to ease your work and save time organizing files with their extension type.

Process
1. Move your download folder inside a new folder ( eg. organize ).
2. Open the organize folder in vs code, and create a new JavaScript file as clutter.js in the root folder ( i.e., organize ).
3. The source code for clutter.js is available below, copy and paste it.
4. Now move inside the download folder and create a new JavaScript file as index.js. ( Note: You will have to pass the file name in the method ).
5. Import the { Clutter } method in your index.js file.
6. Call the method Clutter("index.js").

Prerequisites ⚠️
Your project must be an npm project.
The type must be module.

Instruction

1. Create a JavaScript file as clutter.js

touch clutter.js

2. Use the code written below

import fs, { mkdir } from "fs";
import path from "path";
const directory = "./";

const Clutter = ( ...values ) => {
  const restrictedFile = [...values]
  
  fs.readdir(directory, (err, files) => {

    files.forEach((file) => {
  
      // For getting the absolute path of the files
      const filePath = fs.lstatSync(path.resolve(directory, file));
      
      // Check for only files excluding directories
      if (filePath.isFile()){
  
        const fileName = file.split(".")
        const extension = fileName[fileName.length - 1]

        if (!["json"].includes(extension) && !["clutter.js", "README.md"].includes(file) && !restrictedFile.includes(file)) {
  
            // Creating directories for each file excluding json files and js file
            mkdir(extension, () => null)
  
            // Change directories
            setTimeout(() => {
              fs.copyFile(file, `${extension}/${file}`, (err)=> {
                if (err) {
                  console.log(err)
                }
              })
            }, 0);
  
            // Remove trash files
            setTimeout(() => {
              fs.unlinkSync(file)
            }, 100);
        }
      }
    })
  });
  
}

export { Clutter }

3. Import it to your JavaScript file ( eg. index.js )

import { Clutter } from "../clutter.js";

Clutter("index.js")

Important

The Clutter() method accepts the file names of the restricted files in this process.
Just pass their name, as Clutter("index.js", ".env", "app.js").

Make sure the import has the complete file name as ../clutter.js to prevent errors.

By default, I have restricted README.md and JSON files for safety.

4. Execute the utility using node.js ( eg. your file is index.js )

node index.js

After the execution of the method, you will have organized files inside individual folders as per their extension type.

Utility Test

Let's create some demo files using the bash command

touch index.cpp main.py lorem.py pic.{jpg,png,gif} index.html style.css song.mp3 video.mp4 README.md config.yml .env data.{csv,txt} run.sh license.{txt,md} ipsum.jsx lorem.jsx ipsum.tsx hello.tsx music.mp3 play.mp4 main.java hello.cpp hello.py hello.html sheet.css sheet.scss main.js server.js script.js world.pptx hello.pptx lorem.pdf doc.pdf write.docx

Note

If you are in Windows the above command may not work.
Use gitbash in windows.

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