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Old 11-19-2006, 03:46 PM   #1
alsac
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download manager


Is there such a download manager that will automatically send downloads to pre-specified directories by file type? Say tarballs would be saved in /dwnl/tarballs; rpm's would go straight to /dwnl/rpm; .mov, mpg, avi would go straight to /dwnl/movies ... etc?
 
Old 11-19-2006, 04:08 PM   #2
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I don't know of a download manager that does that. But, maybe you can write a shell script that will run in the background and constantly checks for files in a directory and then move the files to the correct folder.

Then you can set FireFox to download all files to that folder.

I'm not the best at scripts but something like the following.

Code:
i=1

mkdir videos
mkdir pdf
mkdir pics

 while [ $i -le 10 ]
do
        mv *.avi videos
        mv *.mpg videos
	mv *.pdf pdf
	mv *.jpg pics
	mv *.png pics
done
Some one could most likely improve on this alot.
 
Old 11-19-2006, 04:35 PM   #3
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There's a firefox add-on called Download Sort which does this
 
Old 11-19-2006, 04:48 PM   #4
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kget (downloader for KDE) allows you to configure different destination folders per extension.
 
Old 11-19-2006, 05:00 PM   #5
alsac
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Hooray! thanks fellas. This will help tidy up the dwnl dir!

 
  


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