File Organizer

Inspiration

Our inspiration was that our download folder was full of random files and it was easy to lose our way and difficult to find the files that we need. So we decided to make a script that organizes files in the download into different folders.

What it does

It loops through files in the download folder and sorts them into different folders like pictures, videos, etc. If it doesn't belong to any of those categories it get sent to the document folder and there it will be sorted into other subcategories.

How we built it

Using bash script

Challenges we ran into

Syntax errors and some problems with regular expressions in bash

Accomplishments that we're proud of

That it runs correctly and the script looks clean.

What we learned

How to make string arrays and looping through files in a directory.

What's next for File Organizer

We wanted to have it sort through other folders in download or subfolders but since the time was tight we were able to make it work only for downloads folder.

Built With

• bash