Action Plugins

Action Plugins tell Smart File Sorter what to do with a file if it matches all the rules in that ruleset. For exmaple, rename or move the file. The available action plugins are:

• move-to
• print-file-inf_
• rename-to
• stop-processing

move-to

Moves the file to the given directory. If a file with the same name already exists, the current file with have a numbered suffix appended. For example, abc.log would be renamed to abc_001.log.

action:
  - move-to: /archive/

Would move the file to the /archive/ directory.

print-file-info

Prints information on the file. Mostly used for testing.

action:
  - print-file-info

rename-to

In the filename, replaces the match value (a regular expression) with the replace-with value. Is case sensitive

action:
  - rename-to:
      match: ^\d\d\d\d
      replace-with: abcd

Would change:

• 1234_and_things.txt to abcd_and_things
• 7980.txt to abcd.txt

action:
  - rename-to:
      match: XYZ
      replace-with: 123

Would change:

• XYZ.txt to 123.txt
• xyz_and_XYZ.txt to xyz_and_XYZ.txt

stop-processing

This rule stops all further processing on the current file.

action:
  - stop-processing