Group By

A simple CLI program to group files into directories by year, month or day created (or modified).

Usage

Download it

Download an already compiled executable for your operating system from the releases page

Example Usage

Use the groupby command as in the example below:

$ groupby -day -d=./groupby

This 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

Command-line options

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

Building from source

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 build

This will create a groupby binary in the directory (groupby.exe on Windows)

LICENSE

MIT

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Copyright (c) 2018 - 2019, Zikani Nyirenda Mwase and Contributors