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summarize-folder

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summarize-folder

summarize-folder is a powerful Node.js CLI tool designed to analyze and manipulate folder structures and file contents. It offers three main functionalities: summarizing folder structures, reading file hierarchies, and writing file hierarchies.

Features

  • Folder Summarization: Scan folders recursively and generate a YAML file containing file sizes.
  • File Hierarchy Reading: Retrieve and prune file contents based on a given structure.
  • File Hierarchy Writing: Write file contents to a specified structure.
  • Gitignore Support: Respects .gitignore and .genignore files for excluding files/folders.
  • UTF-8 Compatibility: Ignores non-UTF-8 encoded files.

Installation

npm install -g summarize-folder

Usage

Summarize Folder Sizes

summarize-folder size [path]

Scans the current folder or specified path recursively and generates a summary-filesizes.yaml file containing the character count for each file.

Read File Hierarchy

summarize-folder read <input_path> <output_path> [maxDepth]

Retrieves the content for a pruned file list based on the structure defined in the input YAML file.

Write File Hierarchy

summarize-folder write <path-to-yaml-file>

Writes file contents to the file system based on the structure and content defined in the input YAML file.

Configuration

  • .gitignore: Standard Git ignore file, respected by the tool.
  • .genignore: Additional ignore file specific to this tool.

Dependencies

  • yaml: Used for parsing and stringifying YAML content.

License

ISC

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Support

If you encounter any problems or have any questions, please open an issue in the GitHub repository.