Classifier, an application to have our files more organized

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If you really surf the Internet a lot like I do, many of you will have the download folder full of files in no order. This from time to time can be a serious problem as the files pile up meaninglessly. It can even be a hindrance when searching for a document or selecting an image.

This can be solved quickly and easily thanks to a Python script and the Ubuntu terminal.

Classifier organizes the files in folders and subfolders

Thanks to the Webupd8 website, we have come to know a simple program called Classifier that allows us to organize and classify the files in our downloads folder just by executing a command. A) Yes, Classifier organizes everything in subfolders that are created based on the types of files, then those files are moved to those folders. The good thing about Classifier is that being a script for Python, it works not only in Ubuntu but also in the rest of the official Ubuntu flavors.

Classifier we can install it from the official Ubuntu repositories, but for that, we must first install python libraries. So in a terminal we write the following:

sudo apt install python-pip python-setuptools
pip install --user wheel
pip install --user classifier

Once we have classifier installed in our Ubuntu, just We have to go to the Downloads folder or any other folder and execute the classifier command. This will automatically sort and classify the files that we have in this folder into folders by type. In addition to classifying files by extension, it also we can classify it by creation date, in this case using the -dt parameter, that is, writing the following in the terminal:

classifier -dt

This program is free and we can know more information about it as well as get the latest versions in the github repository of the program. Personally I find it very interesting because with just one command we can order the files on our computer and help us to keep the operating system clean and away from digital garbage.


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  1.   jsbsan said

    A similar program, but with a graphical and highly customizable environment, is the Download Organizer:
    http://clasificaryordenar.blogspot.com.es/