A minute tool to move files into a directory hierarchy using the date/time in the filenames.
Usage
move-year --create -ymd -i ~/Downloads/bank-statement-2022-01-01.pdf ~/Documents/finance/my-bank/
move-year --create -dmy -i ~/Downloads/tax-report-31112021.pdf ~/Documents/finance/taxes/
The files will be moved to the directories ~/Documents/finance/my-bank/2022
and ~/Documents/finance/taxes/2021 respectively. Directories will be created.
Move files into subdirectories according to year/month
move-year --create -s ym --part-separator "/" -ym -i foo-2022-03.pdf ~/Documents/foo
# Moves the file into ~/Documents/foo/2022/03
Options
- dry-run|n - only print, don't change anything
- verbose - output verbose messages
- date-regex|d - (Perl) regular expression to recognize the date parts
- date-regex-order|o - order of the components if you don't use named captures
- date-type - the date type to look for (dmy, ymd, ym, my, y)
- ymd - shorthand for --date-type=ymd
- dmy - shorthand for --date-type=dmy
- ym - shorthand for --date-type=ym
- my - shorthand for --date-type=my
- y - shorthand for --date-type=y
- force|f - overwrite files if they exist
- create - create intermediate directories
- directory-style|s - style of the directory (default: y)
- part-separator - separator of the directory parts, use "/" for subdirectories
- i - don't overwrite (the default)
- strict - stop if a file does not have a timestamp in its name