Futilities/human/ftm

FTM: File Tree Move

About

FTM reliably and unambiguously moves a tree of files from one place to another, by default doing a bytewise comparison after copying each file.

For now, FTM does not support moving files that only match some criterion (e.g. file mask); tentatively, that can be done better by using FTI and FCC, or maybe FTS (if I actually end up writing that).

Options

	name
standard	long	short	meaning
ftm	-dd	--do-delete	delete each file from source after copying
ftm	-io	--info-only	don't actually copy; just show what would happen
spider	--list-found=<params>	-lf=<params>	list all items found according to the rules in <params>, which is formatted like "<name>=<value>:<name>=<value>": i=<what to include>: fi (file), fo (folder), or both f=<filespec for output> s: show on screen
base	--config-file=<config spec>	-cf=<config spec>	name of config file to load instead of the default
base	--show-progress	-sp	update a line on the screen to show current activity

Command

ftm [<options>] <source folder> <target folder>

FTM uses the spidering options.

Future

• v0.6 is in progress