Organize or clean your downloads folder

My downloads folder is always a mess and I got fed up with it, I have wrote in a script that will clean up my downloads folder.

First I created a few folders in the downloads folder:

• DL-Compressed 
• DL-Firmware 
• DL-Programs 
• DL-Android
• DL-Documents
• DL-media

After this I created a bash script:

# Move Wetransfer files to tje picure folder 

mv ~/Downloads/wetransfer*  ~/Pictures/Wetransfer

# Move all Airdroid Files to the DL-Airdroid folder

mv ~/Downloads/Files_downloaded_by_AirDroid*  ~/Downloads/DL-Airdroid/

# Move all porn to DL-Media

mv ~/Downloads/*.jpg ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.JPG ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.png ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.PNG ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.mov ~/Downloads/DL-media/    

mv ~/Downloads/*.MOV ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.bmp ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.BMP ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.jpeg ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.JPEG ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.gif ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.GIF ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.tif ~/Downloads/DL-media/

mv ~/Downloads/*.TIF ~/Downloads/DL-media/

# move al compressed files to DL-Compressed folder

mv ~/Downloads/*.zip ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.ZIP ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.rar ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.RAR ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.jar ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.JAR ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.7z ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.7Z ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.tgz ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

mv ~/Downloads/*.TGZ ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/

# Move all installers to DL-Programs 

mv ~/Downloads/*.dmg ~/Downloads/DL-Programs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.DMG ~/Downloads/DL-Programs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.pkg ~/Downloads/DL-Programs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.pkg ~/Downloads/DL-Programs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.prefPane ~/Downloads/DL-Programs/

# Split up all the documents

mv ~/Downloads/*.pdf  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-PDF/

mv ~/Downloads/*.PDF  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-PDF/

mv ~/Downloads/*.txt  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.TXT  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.csv  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.CSV  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.htm  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.html  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.HTM  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.HTML  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.cfg  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.CFG  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.tpl  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.TPL  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-TXT/

mv ~/Downloads/*.doc  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-Docs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.docx  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-Docs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.DOC  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/DL-Docs/

mv ~/Downloads/*.DOCX  ~/Downloads/DL-Documenten/Docs/

# Remove windows stuff

rm ~/Downloads/*.exe 

rm ~/Downloads/*.EXE

# Verwijderen van overbodige folders (alle niet DL- folders) 

find ~/Downloads/. -type d -not -name 'DL-*' -print0 | xargs -0  rm -R

# Remove files from Compressed after 30 days. 

find ~/Downloads/DL-Compressed/* -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

Now i added the file to the crontab

Create a file called crontab.txt 

fill it up with: 

15  * * * * ~/scripts/download.sh  &> /dev/null

Now put it in the crontab:

crontab crontab.txt 

Check your crontabs with:

crontab -l 

Clear your crontabs with:

crontab -r