Switchboard - Simplify file organisation on your machine/s.

Cian Gallagher — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 00:03:34 +0000

Cian911 / switchboard

Automated file organisation and routing for all your machines. 📂

Switchboard

Description

Do you ever get annoyed that your Downloads folder gets cluttered with all types of files? Do you wish you could automatically organise them into seperate, organised folders? Switchboard is a tool to help simplfy file organization on your machine/s.

Switchboard works by monitoring a directory you provide (or list of directories), and uses file system notifications to move a matched file to the appropriate destination directory of your choosing.

See the video below as example. Here, I give switchboard a path to watch, a destination where I want matched files to move to, and the file extension of the type of files I want to move.

Pro

As of version v1.0.0 we have released a pro version which has a ton more features and functionality. Head over to https://goswitchboard.io/pro for more info.

Switchboard Pro gives you extra features and support over the free open-source version.

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Do you ever get annoyed that your Downloads folder gets cluttered with all types of files? Do you wish you could automatically organise them into separate, organised folders? Switchboard is a tool to help simplify file organisation on your machine/s.

Switchboard works by monitoring a directory you provide (or list of directories), and uses file system notifications to move a matched file to the appropriate destination directory of your choosing.

Motivation

I built switchboard out of a frustration with the sporadic mess of files strewn throughout my local machine and network file servers. I thought what best way to try and fix this problem then build something, in Go no less :)

Switchboard is new, so I'd love to get it into peoples hands to be used. I'd also love to here any suggestions or improvements you'd like to see - please head over to Github Discussions to have a chat!

Usage

See the video below as example. Here, I give switchboard a path to watch, a destination where I want matched files to move to, and the file extension of the type of files I want to move.

You can also visit https://goswitchboard.io/ for all your documentation needs, news, and updates!

Installation

You can install switchboard pre-compiled binary in a number of ways.

Homebrew

brew tap Cian911/switchboard
brew install switchboard

// Check everything is working as it should be
switchboard -h

Go Install

go install github.com/Cian911/switchboard@latest

Manually

You can download the pre-compiled binary for your specific OS type from the OSS releases page. You will need to copy these and extract the binary, then move it to you local bin directory. See the example below.

wget https://github.com/Cian911/switchboard/releases/download/${VERSION}/${PACKAGE_NAME}
sudo tar -xvf ${PACKAGE_NAME} -C /usr/local/bin/
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/switchboard

Quick Start

Using switchboard is pretty easy. Below lists the set of commands and flags you can pass in.

Run the switchboard application passing in the path, destination, and file type you'd like to watch for.

Usage:
   watch [flags]

Flags:
      --config string        Pass an optional config file containing multiple paths to watch.
  -d, --destination string   Path you want files to be relocated.
  -e, --ext string           File type you want to watch for.
  -h, --help                 help for watch
  -p, --path string          Path you want to watch.

To get started quickly, you can run the following command, passing in the path, destination, and file extenstion you want to watch for. See the example below.

switchboard watch -p /home/user/Downloads -d /home/user/Movies -e .mp4

Bulk merge & Approve Github Pull Requests with the Gomerge github action!

Cian Gallagher — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 13:56:11 +0000

My Workflow

Are you an open source maintainer? Do you get dozens of contributions from your community every week? Are you someone who would like to automate everything?

Late last year, I created the Gomerge CLI tool. Gomerge is a tool which allows you to quickly bulk merge and approve several pull requests from your terminal.

With the github actions hackathon on the horizon, I thought I would take the opportunity and containerize Gomerge into it's own custom Github Action, with some new features to boot!

The gomerge github action is now available on the github marketplace. You can also view the action directly on the github repository.

Submission Category:

Maintainer Must-Haves

Yaml File or Link to Code

Cian911 / gomerge-action

Github action utilising the Gomerge CLI tool to bulk merge and approve pull requests.

gomerge-action

Github action which utilizes the Gomerge CLI tool, also created by myself, to bulk merge and approve github pull requests.

Behind the scenes, Gomerge will determine the mergeability of a pull request by checking the following attributes:

CI Status (success, pending, failure)
Mergeable State (clean, blocked, dirty)
Pull Request State (open, draft, closed)

If any of these metrics are not in a valid state, the pull request will not be approved/merged.

Usage & Examples

Below outlines a list of possible use cases if you wanted to automated your repositories approval/merge workflow.

You can also specify a list of labels in the following format label1,label2... and pass that as option like so:

with:
  labels: label1,label2

This will filter all Pull Requests that only have the associated labels.

Run action once a day at midnight to approve all valid Pull Requests.

on
  schedule:
    - cron:

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