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CLUSTER COMMAND-LINE-FILES · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-13

Command-line file sorting tools

This cluster comprises command-line tools that sort loose files into categorized subfolders by type, often offering dry-run previews, undo capabilities, and customizable rules. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from, as there are no dated entries before the index start; the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Among tools with activity signals, file-tidy leads with 2 stars, followed by tartib with 1 and pyorganize with 0.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

SEP 2026: 6OCT 2026: 3
SEP 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 9 hobby

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01tartib1★13 days—hobbyCommand-line tool that automatically sorts files in a Downloads folder into categories by rules and can undo any move.
  2. 02Automated-File-Organizer4★20 days—hobbyCommand-line utility that automatically organizes files into categories with dry-run previews and duplicate-safe moves.
  3. 03pyorganize0★7 days—hobbyCommand-line tool that automatically sorts files into folders by type, with dry-run preview, undo, and custom rules.
  4. 04file-organizer0★9 days—hobbyFile organization tool that automatically sorts files by regex patterns and extensions, with routing, dry-run previews, undo history, and a configuration GUI.
  5. 05file-tidy2★29 days—hand-codedhobbyCommand-line utility that automatically sorts loose files in a folder into category subfolders for images, documents, videos, music, and archives.
  6. 06smart-file-organizer0★26 days—hobbyCommand-line tool that sorts cluttered folders into subdirectories by file type, date, or size, with a dry-run preview.
  7. 07FolderSorter0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop and command-line tool that tidies a folder by moving files into category or type folders, with exact selection and undo.
  8. 08filetidy0★1 mo—hobbyCommand-line utility that sorts loose files into folders by type across operating systems, previewing changes and allowing undo.
  9. 09cb0★1 molivehobbyCommand-line tool that uploads selected files from a folder to Catbox or TempFile and displays the resulting URLs.

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