Fidy

Fidy is a command-line tool for organizing files in a directory based on their extensions. It helps you keep your workspace tidy by categorizing files into folders named after their extensions.

Features

• Organize Files by Extension: Automatically move files into directories based on their file extensions.
• Custom Greetings: Save a custom name to personalize your Fidy experience.
• Verbose Mode: Get detailed output of the operations performed.
• Dry Run: Simulate the organization process without making any changes.
• Custom folder names: Customise the folder names created by Fidy for each file extension.
• Clean empty directories: Recursively delete all empty folders and sub-folders within the target directory.

Installation

1. Download the installer executable for Windows. (Recommended)

The installer file can be downloaded from Fidy Installer. Download the exe file and run it to install Fidy.

Open your terminal and run Fidy!

fidy

2. Install using 'go install' command.

Make sure you have Go installed in your system.

You can install Fidy using the following command in your terminal:

go install github.com/ashmit0920/Fidy@latest

Run fidy

fidy

Update: Fidy will be released soon as a binary for Linux and MacOS!

Usage

Display info about Fidy

fidy -help

Fidy can remember your name and send personalized greetings! Set your name using the command:

fidy -name YOUR_NAME

Check the installed version

fidy -version

Organize a directory

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR

Include or exclude specific file extensions

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR -include txt,png -exclude pdf

Organize files with verbose output

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR -verbose

Perform a Dry Run to simulate the process, without doing any actual changes to your directory.

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR -dryrun -include txt,png -exclude pdf

Give custom names to folders created by Fidy for each extension.

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR -custom png=Images,pdf=Documents,mp4=Videos

Clean all the empty folders and sub-folders within your target directory.

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR -cleanAll -verbose

Fidy can take a backup of all your files before organizing them. Use the -backup flag to specify the directory where you want your backup folder to be created.

fidy -dir PATH_TO_YOUR_DIR -backup PATH_TO_BACKUP_DIR -include png -custom png=Images -verbose

Upcoming features

• Log file
• Backup before running Fidy
• Recursive organization for sub-directories