Add script that moves files while prepending a date

bin/mv-to-docs

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""
+Move a document to the correct documents folder
+"""
+
+import filecmp
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+from datetime import date
+
+_slugify_strip_re = re.compile(r'[^\w\s-]')
+_slugify_hyphenate_re = re.compile(r'[-\s]+')
+def slugify(value):
+    """
+    Normalizes string, converts to lowercase, removes non-alpha characters,
+    and converts spaces to hyphens.
+
+    From Django's "django/template/defaultfilters.py".
+    """
+    import unicodedata
+    if not isinstance(value, unicode):
+        value = unicode(value)
+    value = unicodedata.normalize('NFKD', value).encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+    value = unicode(_slugify_strip_re.sub('', value).strip().lower())
+    return _slugify_hyphenate_re.sub('-', value)
+
+def usage():
+    return "Usage: mv-to-docs [SRC_DOC] [CATEGORY] [MSG]"
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    try:
+        file_name = sys.argv[1]
+        dir_name = slugify(sys.argv[2])
+    except IndexError:
+        sys.exit(usage())
+
+    try:
+        msg = slugify(sys.argv[3])
+    except IndexError:
+        msg = ""
+
+    file_type = file_name.split(".")[-1]
+
+    if not os.path.isfile(file_name):
+        print "ERROR: Cannot find file '%s'" % file_name
+        sys.exit(usage())
+
+    file_date = date.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(file_name))
+
+    doc_path = os.path.expanduser("~/documents/records/%s" % dir_name)
+    if not os.path.exists(doc_path):
+        print "Could not find path, creating directory '%s'" % doc_path
+        os.mkdir(doc_path)
+
+    path_with_year = "%s/%s" % (doc_path, file_date.strftime("%Y"))
+    if not os.path.exists(path_with_year):
+        os.mkdir(path_with_year)
+        pass
+
+    new_file_path = "%s/%s_%s.%s" % \
+        (path_with_year, file_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d"), msg, file_type)
+
+    if not os.path.isfile(new_file_path):
+        print "Moving file '%s' to '%s'" % (file_name, new_file_path)
+        os.rename(file_name, new_file_path)
+    else:
+        if filecmp.cmp(new_file_path, file_name):
+            print "Two files already exist and are same: '%s' and '%s'" % \
+                (file_name, new_file_path)
+        else:
+            print "Destination file '%s' already exists" % (new_file_path)
+