saspre / mvln

mvln

mvln

Console application for moving folders and creating links to the destination. Roughly equivalent to:

$ mv a b
$ ln -s b a

which should result in:

$ ln -ls
lrwxrwxrwx  1 pseudo pseudo    1 Dec 30 13:13 a -> b
drwxr-xr-x  2 pseudo pseudo   40 Dec 30 13:12 b

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/rasmusprentow/mvln.git
$ cd mvln
$ python setup.py install

Usage

$ mvln src dst

If multiple files are used the following syntax can be used:

$ mvln < spec.txt

Where spec.txt contains:

/path/to/source1/ /path/to/destination1/
/path/to/source2/ /path/to/destination2/

Why

Why did i create this project? Of course it could be done with a shell script. The reason is twofold. First, I wanted to learn python. Second, I needed a script which could move files and create links based on a specification file. Which is quite useful when you have a small SSD and a large HD in the same machine.