Mv-files

Mv-files is C script for moving files ends with particular suffix (extension) from one folder to the desired destination on the same file system.

Why I made this?

What if is you asking me? I will say Good question, Since I'm dev I mean Junior one I download bunch of different files and all of them by default stored in Downloads and I know I can select all, ctrl + x and ctrl + v where I want but that will still not be the great and I know it doesn't sounds tough because where I pasted it, will still not organised there will be html docs , videos, audios, xls files, images, etc. So that's why I created script where you can simply categories files by their extensions and move them where you want by their categories. and also files can't only be in the Downloads can be everywhere you want it to be. just continue to read and you'll star the repo later.

Author

Gitlab @umutambyi-gad
Website: umutambyigad
Stackoverflow: @umutambyi-gad
Twitter: @umutambyi_gad
Linkedin: @umutambyi-gad
Dev.to: @umutambyigad
Email: [email protected]

Description

This script has pre-defined global constant variables which are (2d arrays). to make it easy it's lists(arrays) of string of different types of extensions.

const char* videos_ext[] = {".mp4", ".mpg", ...};
const char* audios_ext[] = {".mp3", ".wav", ...};
const char* documents_ext[] = {".docx", ".html", ...};
const char* images_ext[] = {".jpg", ".png", ...};

so understandable, videos_ext means video extensions is list of all possible video extensions and you can simply customize them no big deal.

And also there are another defined global variables which are

char LookUpDirectory[250];
char DestinationForVideos[250];
char DestinationForMusic[250]; // I assume that all musics are audios.
char DestinationForPictures[250];
char DestinationForDocuments[250];

Guess the above variable names are so descriptive. Ok but let me explain this in summary.

strcat(strcpy(LookUpDirectory, homeDirectory), "/Downloads/");

The above is like an initialization of LookUpDirectory. as you can understand LookUpDirectory is the directory where to look up all file that you want to migrate and by default is in the Downloads - C:/Users/YoungLady/Downloads/ or /home/kali/Downloads/. don't worry about the platform I handled that by joining home directory with downloads where home directory can be different. so what if you want to change LookUpDirectory so simple just comment my line of code or get rid of it and do something like

strcpy(LookUpDirectory, "C/Users/ImDifferent/ForMeLookUpHere"); // I think you don't need to join your path with the home directory

then done. so you can still do the same on destination ones (DestinationForVideos, DestinationForMusic, ...) And you can now compile your code that's what I wanted you to know first. wait, wait, wait there are two more important defined macros with bool type as value

#define show true
#define execute true

both by default are true so here is what these macros do, if show is true the script just print in console all matches and their categories and after give out an overview of them I called it summary. see the picture bellow -

and if execute is true, simple the script will be executed I'll suggest to initialize this to false and first checkout the matches where show will be only one set to true. And now you're ready to compile nothing to wait now.

Usage

Just compile the code with your favorite installed compiler here is how I did -

gcc main.c -o main.exe

Thereafter run the main.exe, On windows just navigate to its location and double click on generated executable file or run it from your command line like

main.exe

On Linux I think it's something like

./main.exe

Then done. just check if everything goes well and if is not and can't figure out why? you can simply raise an issue I will be right there

License

This project is under the MIT License