catfile 0.1.0

A simple file sorter for all your folder

filesort

A simple Python script that automatically organizes files in a directory into folders based on their file types.
If a file type is not recognized, it will be placed in the others folder.

Features

• Sorts files into categories such as application, images, documents, spreadsheets, presentation, audio, video, archives, code
• Automatically creates the target folders if they don't exist
• Puts unknown file types into an others folder
• Cross-platform support (Linux, macOS, Windows)

Example

Before sorting:

After Sorting :

How to Install

How to Use

• Open terminal in the directory you want to sort
• Type filesort
• directories (optional) use to determined wich directories you want the script to run. If empty will default into the current directory
• flags (optional) use to determine wich directories you want to create. If empty will create all directories

Flags

flags determined wich directories will be created, you can combine multiple flags by typing filesort -flags.

• -a create a directory for applications only
• -i create a directory for images only
• -d create a directory for documents only
• -s create a directory for spreadsheets only
• -p → create a directory for Presentations only
• -au → create a directory for Audio files only
• -v → create a directory for Videos only
• -ar → create a directory for Archives / compressed files only
• -c → create a directory for Code / source files only

You can combine multiple arguments for example:

filesort Downloads/ -a -c -d

Will sort files in the Downloads directories that match the directories created wich is applicaton, code, and documents

Supported File Types

• Applications
  .exe, .msi, .bat, .cmd, .app, .dmg, .pkg, .bin, .run, .sh, .deb, .rpm, .jar, .apk, .xpi

• Images
  .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, .tif, .webp, .avif, .heif, .heic, .svg, .eps, .ai, .cr2, .cr3, .nef, .arw, .orf, .rw2, .dng

• Documents
  .txt, .rtf, .odt, .md, .doc, .docx, .dot, .dotx, .pdf, .epub, .mobi, .azw3

• Spreadsheets
  .xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xlsb, .xlt, .xltx, .xltm, .ods, .ots, .csv, .tsv, .numbers

• Presentations
  .ppt, .pptx, .pptm, .pot, .potx, .potm, .odp, .otp, .key

• Audio
  .mp3, .aac, .ogg, .wma, .m4a, .wav, .flac, .alac, .aiff, .aif, .opus, .amr, .mid, .midi

• Video
  .mp4, .m4v, .mov, .avi, .wmv, .flv, .mkv, .webm, .ogv, .3gp, .3g2, .mts, .m2ts, .ts, .vob

• Archives
  .zip, .rar, .7z, .tar, .gz, .bz2, .xz, .iso, .img, .dmg, .vhd, .vhdx, .tgz, .tbz2, .lz, .z

• Code
  .html, .htm, .css, .js, .mjs, .cjs, .ts, .tsx, .php, .phtml, .rb, .aspx, .cshtml, .py, .pyw, .ipynb, .java, .c, .h, .cpp, .cc, .cxx, .hpp, .hxx, .cs, .go, .rs, .kt, .kts, .swift, .m, .mm, .sh, .bash, .ps1, .pl, .pm, .lua, .r, .R, .m, .jl, .sas, .yml, .yaml, .json, .xml, .toml, .ini, .md