Script in AutoHotkey that helps you to preview complex file moves before actually performing them. A .conf file can be written using natural English and dragged-and-dropped onto organize.ahk or passed as a command-line argument as a substitute of the GUI.
Source and destination patterns indicate which files are to be moved and where they are to be moved.
Use <a>, <b> ... to match any character in the source file name. These same identifiers are then available as backreferences for the destination pattern.
- To remove nested identically named folders, use
<f>\<f>\<g>as source and<f>\<g>as destination. - To flatten a folder structure of three levels, use
<first>\<second>\<third>\<file>as source and<first>_<second>_<third>_<file>
The syntax is:
Among <global file pattern> [including subfolders] find <source pattern> [case-insensitive] and [recycle | move to <destination pattern> [overwriting if [newer or] [larger]]]
See demo.conf for an example.
See: www.autohotkey.com for the required runtime installation.