copy-files-recursive ·

This program helps you to copy files from a nested folder structure eg PICS folder.

Built With

This program is written in JavaScript using Node.JS.

The following modules are imported:

1. fs-extra
2. path
3. recursive-readdir

How it works

• Lets say you have a folder and inside that folder you have some subfolders which can have files.

• Now lets say you are looking for a type of file, like in my case was '.pes'.

• You would first then need to loop over all folders and subfolders to get the path to all the files.

• This is where recursive-readdir comes in, you pass in a source directory and it does the rest.

• Once you have that list of file paths, which will be an array.

• You need to loop through that array using the filter() method, looking for that file format eg '.pes'.

• Then copy those files to another folder eg PES

• This program does all that for you.

• All you need to do is provide the file format in the includes('.pes'),

• which is then filtered to only produce the files with '.pes' extension.

• The copyFileSync() method has 2 arguments src, dest.

• The variable fn is the source and, path.join('./PES', '/', path.basename(fn)) is destination.

Installing / Getting started

A quick introduction of how to get up & running.

Open your terminal and type these commands in your terminal to clone repository

git clone https://github.com/djmuller-python-43/copy_files_recursive.git
cd copy_files_recursive/

Type the following command to install all the dependencies for project

npm install

To run this program there are 2 options

• Please ensure nodemon is installed globally or as a dev-dependency

npm install nodemon --globally 

or

npm install nodemon --save-dev

Option 1

• Only if nodemon is installed

npm run dev

Option 2

• without nodemon

node index