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Maid rules
# https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid
Maid.rules do
## Trash a bunch of downloaded stuffs ##
rule 'Trash duplicate downloads' do
# Keep the dupe with the shortest filename
trash verbose_dupes_in('~/Downloads/*')
end
rule 'Trash development downloads' do
files('~/Downloads/*').each do |path|
if downloaded_from(path).any? { |u| u.match %r{//(localhost|[^\.]+\.dev)} } and 1.week.since? accessed_at path
trash path
end
end
end
rule 'Trash zips and tarballs downloaded from GitHub' do
dir('~/Downloads/*.{zip,tgz,gz,rar,tar}').each do |path|
if downloaded_from(path).any? { |u| u.match %r{//([^\/]+\.)?github\.com\/} }
trash path
end
end
end
rule 'Trash incomplete downloads' do
trash dir('~/Downloads/*.download').select { |p| 30.days.since modified_at p }
end
## Save some downloaded stuffs ##
rule 'Add downloaded music to iTunes' do
move dir('~/Downloads/*.mp3').select { |p| duration_s(p) > 45.0 }, '~/Music/iTunes/Automatically Add to iTunes/'
end
rule 'Archive downloaded applications in zip files' do
dir('~/Downloads/*.zip').each do |path|
if zipfile_contents(path).any? { |c| c.match %r{\.app$} }
move path, '~/Downloads/Applications'
end
end
end
# And organize the rest
DOWNLOAD_TYPES = {
'Applications' => ['public.disk-image', 'com.apple.application', 'com.apple.installer-package-archive'],
'Archives' => 'public.archive',
'Audio' => 'public.audio',
'Images' => 'public.image',
'PDFs' => 'com.adobe.pdf',
'Video' => 'public.movie',
}
DOWNLOAD_TYPES.each do |sub_dir, types|
rule "Move downloaded #{sub_dir.downcase}" do
move where_content_type(dir('~/Downloads/*.*'), types), mkdir("~/Downloads/#{sub_dir}")
end
end
## Desktop cleanup ##
rule 'Archive old screenshots on the Desktop' do
move dir('~/Desktop/Screen Shot *').select { |p| 2.days.since? accessed_at p }, mkdir('~/Documents/Screenshots/')
end
rule 'Archive old links on the Desktop' do
move dir('~/Desktop/*.webloc').select { |p| 7.days.since? created_at p }, mkdir('~/Desktop/Links')
end
rule 'Remove empty directories' do
dir(['~/Desktop/*', '~/Downloads/*']).each do |path|
if File.directory?(path) && dir("#{ path }/*").empty?
trash(path)
end
end
end
end
@benjaminoakes
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I'm really impressed with your gist. You've implemented some features I'd love to bring into Maid itself (e.g. list duplicate files) and I also like your files method.

Would you be willing to contribute this code? (By making a pull request if possible.)

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