pltnk/selective_copy

Command line application for selective file copying based on filename extensions.

Selective Copy v0.3.0

Simple command line application that copies all files with given extensions from a directory and its subfolders to another directory showing progress bar and remaining files counter.
Allows to preserve a source folder structure, to process only files without given extensions, to move files instead of copying, to exclude certain files from processing and to create a log if necessary.
Opens a filedialog if source and/or destination are not given in the command line.
Creates folders in a destination path if they don't exist.

Installing

pip install slcp

Usage

slcp ext [ext ...] [-s SRC] [-d DST] [-sc | -dc] [-p] [-i] [-m] [-e FILE [FILE ...]] [-l] [-h]

Positional arguments:
ext                         One or more extensions of the files to copy. 
                            Enter extensions without a dot and separate by spaces.

Optional arguments:
-s SRC, --source SRC        Source folder path.
-d DST, --dest DST          Destination folder path.
-sc, --srccwd               Use current working directory as a source folder.
-dc, --dstcwd               Use current working directory as a destination folder.
-p, --preserve              Preserve source folder structure.
-i, --invert                Process only files without given extensions.
-m, --move                  Move files instead of copying, be careful with this option.
-e FILE [FILE ...],         Exclude one or more files from processing.
--exclude FILE [FILE ...]   Enter filenames with extensions and separate by spaces.
-l, --log                   Create and save log to the destination folder.
-h, --help                  Show this help message and exit.

Examples

Changelog

v0.3.0 - 2019-08-22

Added

• Black code style

Changed

• The code is now divided into separate modules
• Dots that come with extensions are removed from output folder name. The reason is that folders with a name starting with a dot are considered as hidden on Linux.
• Log saving indication
• Name of the logfile

Fixed

• Issue when paths like /home/user/test and /home/user/test2 were considered as nested which lead to an error.

Compare with v0.2.1

v0.2.1 - 2019-07-16

Added

• Changelog

Fixed

• Readme of the project on PyPI and GitHub

Compare with v0.2.0

v0.2.0 - 2019-07-15

Added

• Support of processing several extensions at once
• --invert option
• --move option
• --exclude option

Compare with v0.1.0

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

Inspired by the task from Chapter 9 of Automate the Boring Stuff.

selective_copy's Issues

Feature Request: Give the user the choice to Copy or Move.

When it's in the same drive, sometimes users might prefer to just Move/Rename. So we can just keep copy as default option, and only when move/rename is passed as argument just move the files.
Reduces overall time, and HW IO. (I guess)

Feature Request : Extension list with an invert option.

It's useful to copy all files while omitting a couple extensions sometimes.. an invert option there would be useful.
slcp [txt] --invert would copy all files except txt files. Useful when there are many other extensions.

Feature Request : Extentsion List instead of single extension.

We can have multiple extensions ,that'll be copied.
Eg: I have a movies folder, and I want to copy mkv, mp4, srt, ass etc files with folder structure preserved, while omitting jpg, txt, nfo, etc.
We'd have to run the command multiple times with each extension if not.