fatsort looks good. I didn't know that existed before now.
If it's of any interest, I wrote something similar a while ago for my mp3 player - same problem. Mine works with any filesystem, must be mounted. It works by moving all the files to a temporary directory and then moving them back in the desired order. It's missing some of the options that fatsort has though. I was careful that it sorts files with numbers numbers into 1,2,3 not 1,10,11...2,21,22.
I'll try to attach it here in case it's of interest to anyone. Nope. Can't attach it. I'll just post the content (I called the file dir-reorder and put it in ~/bin):
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# This little ditty re-orders the files in a directory by moving them to a temporary directory
# and then moving them back in the preferred order. This means my music player should then list
# (and play) the files in my preferred order (it seems to do them in the order they are
# written into the directory with no attempt at sorting them).
import os, sys
def vsort(strings, ignore_case):
kvpairs = []
for val in strings:
v2 = s.upper() if ignore_case else val
chunks = re.findall(r'\d+|\D+', v2)
key = [int(chunk) if chunk.isdigit() else chunk for chunk in chunks]
kvpairs.append([key, val])
return [kv[1] for kv in sorted(kvpairs)]
def sortDir(d, ignoreCase, recursive):
# Sort the ordering in a directory
files = os.listdir(d)
sfiles = vsort(files, ignoreCase)
# Don't bother if they're already in the right order
if files != sfiles:
# Make a temporary directory
tmpdir = os.path.join(d, "_-sort-_.tmp")
os.mkdir(tmpdir)
# Move all the files to the temp directory
moved = []
subdirs = []
for f in sfiles:
original = os.path.join(d, f)
stashed = os.path.join(tmpdir, f)
os.rename(original, stashed)
moved.append((original, stashed))
# Replace all the files
for original, stashed in moved:
os.rename(stashed, original)
# Remove the temporary directory again
os.rmdir(tmpdir)
# If recursive, reorder the content directories
if recursive:
for f in sfiles:
subdir = os.path.join(d, f)
if os.path.isdir(subdir):
sortDir(subdir, ignoreCase, recursive)
def printhelp():
print("Re-order directory contents.")
print("usage: %s [-i] [-r] directory" % sys.argv[0])
print(" -i : case insensitive ordering")
print(" -r : recursively reorder subdirectories")
sys.exit(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
if len(sys.argv) < 2:
printhelp()
ignoreCase = False
recursive = False
for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
if arg == "-i":
ignoreCase = True
continue
if arg == "-r":
recursive = True
continue
if arg == "-h":
printhelp()
if os.path.isdir(arg):
sortDir(arg, ignoreCase, recursive)
else:
print(arg, "is not a directory.")
#-
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Ah well. Thanks folks.
p.s. hello to any Linux-using Honda CRV owners from the future lol.
