Move Unused Path

Reliably move to an unused path.

It is basically a wrapper around get-unused-path which doesn't just return an unused path, but also moves to it.

Install

npm install move-unused-path

Usage

import fs from 'fs';
import moveUnusedPath from 'move-unused-path';

// Let's move a file to an unused path

const sourceFilePath = '/x/y/z/bar.txt';

const result = await moveUnusedPath ( sourceFilePath, {
  fileName: 'foo.txt',
  folderPath: '/x/y/z',
  // incrementer: ( name, ext, attempt ) => attempt > 1 ? `${name}-${attempt}${ext}` : `${name}${ext}`,
  // maxTries: 1_000
});

result.folderPath; // => '/x/y/z'
result.filePath; // => '/x/y/z/foo (3).txt'
result.fileName; // => 'foo (3).txt'

// Let's check that the file got actually moved

console.log ( fs.existsSync ( sourceFilePath ) ); // => false
console.log ( fs.existsSync ( result.filePath ) ); // => true

Related

• unused-path: Reliably get an unused path and copy/move/write to it.
• copy-unused-path: Reliably copy to an unused path.
• get-unused-path: Reliably get an unused path you can write to.
• write-unused-path: Reliably write to an unused path.

License

MIT © Fabio Spampinato