A simple CLI program to group files into directories by year, month or day created (or modified).
Download an already compiled executable for your operating system from the releases page
Use the groupby command as in the example below:
$ groupby -day -d=./groupbyThis will group your files into year, month and then day subdirectories so that it looks like This
./groupby
└── 2017
├── July
└── 15
└── LICENSE
└── August
└── 21
├── README.md
└── groupby.go
groupby [OPTIONS]
Usage of groupby:
-a Include hidden files and directories (starting with .)
-copy-only
Only copy files, do not move them
-created
Group files by the date they were created (default)
-d DIRECTORY
Directory containing files to group
-day
Group by year, month and then day
-dry-run
Only show the output of how the files will be grouped
-flatten
Flatten the created directory tree folders
-ignore-directories
Ignore directories and only group files
-modified
Group files by the date they were modified (default true)
-month
Group by year, and then month
-o DIRECTORY
Directory to move grouped files to
-p Only show the output of how the files will be grouped (shorthand)
-preview
Only show the output of how the files will be grouped
-v Show verbose output
-verbose
Show verbose output
-version
Show the program version and exit
-year
Group by year only
Use the following steps if you would like to build the binary from the source code.
groupby doesn't have any other dependencies besides Go itself, so building it is
as simple as cloning it and running go build.
You must have Go installed
$ git clone https://github.com/zikani03/groupby
$ cd groupby
$ go buildThis will create a groupby binary in the directory (groupby.exe on Windows)
MIT
Copyright (c) 2018 - 2019, Zikani Nyirenda Mwase and Contributors