Futilities/human

The Human Futilities

Purpose

The Human Futilities are a set of file-oriented command-line utilities, primarily useful for handling large filesets.

• goals

Future

Thinking about how Nextcloud works has led me to realize its shortcomings and how overspecialized it is. I'm thinking that each piece of it can eventually be replaced by much more flexible tools.

I'm also repeatedly seeing the usefulness of having a searchable index of files that includes filename/path, timestamps, hash, and ideally the ability to tag files and folders with keywords -- all of which would be a key part of FileFerret -- and how relatively easy it is to create and maintain such an index using these utilities. (It also makes me wonder why there are, apparently, no filesystems with a queryable file database built in -- or, at least, a way to add one on.)

Commands

• FF: find files by mask, date, contents
• FCC: file collection copy
• FIC: file index comparison
• FTI: file tree index
• FTS: file tree sync

Other

• lib: class library
• ui standards: user interface standards and conventions