https://github.com/joshpetit/mvpls

Move Please! Recursively move, copy, or remove all files matching a regex pattern.
https://github.com/joshpetit/mvpls

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Move Please! Recursively move, copy, or remove all files matching a regex pattern.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/joshpetit/mvpls
• Owner: joshpetit
• Created: 2020-12-22T23:13:34.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-01-19T20:45:24.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-07T13:40:56.491Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Topics: bus, don-t, driver, forget, regex, thank, the, to
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 4.06 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 2
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  • Readme: README.md

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# mvpls

Mvpls (move please) is a simple utility tool written in Go to allow for the recursive moving, copying, or removing of files and flattening of file trees with regex.

![](assets/mvpls.gif)

In this example, every pdf file within my books directory and its subdirectories is moved to a seperate folder.

Why are my pdfs executable? Idk calibre did that to them for some reason.

It's really simple, pass in a -r "REGEX" flag and the directories you would like to search within.

```sh

mvpls -r ".*\.png" . moveLocation/

```

moves all pngs extensions from the current directory and its subdirectories to the folder `moveLocation`.

to copy, pass in the -c flag, remove pass in the --remove flag.

it's still in development lol. Try at your own risk I suppose. Should work though... spent a few hours on it...

You could say, can't we easily do this by piping a few [standard commands](https://superuser.com/a/1041895/1225558)?

And you'd be right. But I wanted to make this anyway :P. Also  Go is fun to code in so I can't be wrong there.

It also works just like the POSIX `mv` command so can move files like regular when no flag is passed. Do I get a POSIX compliant badge??

## Why GO?

The correct question is why not Go? I mostly chose Go because it looks fun and is cross platform. 

The two most import parts in software development after the name.

### Pressing features

- Key feature allowing you to thank mvpls if it succeeds.

- Cache operations to allow for a possible revert flag

- Obviously add the ability to copy or remove.