Devilry Sort

DISCLAIMER

Be careful when running program - do not run except in a folder you CAN STAND TO LOOSE THE CONTENTS OF. This program utilizes the rm without prompting user in order to remove certain files.

About

Program goes through all folders downloaded from Devilry, moves the last delivery up to user_root directory, which is also renamed to user_id only (unless specified not to). Rest of deliveries is either stored in a new folder 'older' or removed based upon options parameters. Running with [-l]og to create a log file of what happens is recommended.

Usage

NOTE: Run in a folder without any directories. Files are OK.

Usage: python sort_deliveries.py [options] path
Mandatory: path
      path -- the mandatory argument which is the output folder to have all user directories within when script is done
Options: -b -c -d -D -h -l -v -z [zipfile]
        -b -- bare move, no rename of user folder
        -c -- runs javac on each user, and prints those that fail
        -d -- delete the other files and folders
        -D -- DEBUG mode, program will not execute
        -h -- shows this menu
        -l -- creates a log file for what happens
        -v -- loud about what happens
        -z -- unzips the .zip file in path first (if only 1 is present)
-z zipfile -- unzipz the specified zip file in path first
Example usages
python sort_deliveries -z ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip .
Above command will first unzip the 'deliveries.zip' into current folder, and then sort all files
--
python sort_deliveries -z ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip ~/assignments/assignment1
Above command will first unzip the 'deliveries.zip' into the folder at '$HOME/assignments/assignment1/' before sorting said directory
--
python sort_deliveries .
Above command will sort deliveries from current directory - it should contain ALL the users folders - so it is NOT enough to just unzip the zip file and then run the sort script on subdirectory. It should be run on directory.
Command executions example
unzip ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip ## This will create a folder with the same name as zip-file in current working directory
python sort_deliveries deliveries ## Assuming the name of folder is equal to the zip file, it should be included as 'path'

Example:

I start with an empty directory called assignemnts:

assignemnts/

I have downloaded the zipfile deliveries.zip which is in the Downloads folder at home. This zip file contains the work of 3 users - a regular unzip ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip could give the following tree from Devilry:

assignemnts/
-assignment1/
---user1 (111)/
----deadline1/
-----delivery1/
------file1.java
------file2.java
-----delivery2/
------file1.java
------file2.java
------readme.txt
---user2 (112)/
----deadline1/
-----delivery1/
------file1.java
---user3 (131)/
-----delivery2/
------file.java
------readme.txt

If instead run with this script using the following (explained) command: python sort_deliveries -z ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip .

• python sort_deliveries runs the script
• -z ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip tells the script to un(z)ip the file ~/Downloads/deliveries.zip
• and into directory . -- which means current directory.

Ultimately it turns into:

assignemnts/
-assignment1/
--deliveries.zip
--log.txt
--user1/
---file1.java
---file2.java
---file3.java
---older/
----deadline1/
-----delivery1/
------file1.java
------file2.java
--user2/
---file1.java
--user3/
---file.java
---readme.txt
---older/
----deadline1/
-----delivery1/
------file1.java
------file2.java
------file3.java