ibnaleem / multi-mat2

a python script that utilises mat2 on multiple files and moves them to a another folder

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MAT2 is currently in beta, please don't use it for anything critical.

Purpose

Multi-MAT2 automates MAT2, a CLI tool for Unix terminals, making metadata cleaning more efficient. Instead of manually typing filenames, Multi-MAT2 utilizes Python subprocesses to apply MAT2 to each file in a directory. It then moves only the cleaned files to a designated folder, leaving the originals untouched.

Using only MAT2:

> mat2 filename1 filename2 filename3 filename4 ...

Using Multi-MAT2:

> python3 main.py <file_extension>

Multi-MAT2 has automated the tidious task of typing every file you wish to clean.

Usage

Make sure MAT2 and Python are installed on your system. Move all files you wish to clean inside a new directory. Make sub-directory within the new directory called /cleaned:

> mkdir images
> mv file1 images // move all files inside this directory
> cd images
> mkdir cleaned

Clone this repository and copy main.py into the directory (e.g images) but outside of /cleaned:

> cd images
> git clone https://github.com/ibnaleem/multi-mat2.git
> cd multi-mat2
> mv main.py /images
> cd ..
> rm -rf multi-mat2

Your new directory should contain all your files you wish to clean, a main.py file, and a /cleaned sub-directory. You can run the script in a terminal by providing a file extension argument:

python3 main.py <file_extension>

Disclaimer

Even though MAT2 works on most file extensions, it does not cover all, therefore, Multi-MAT2 may not work for your file extension. You can read MAT2's supported file extensions here.

Acknowledgements

0xacab.org tpet/mat2 jvoisin/mat2

LICENSES

MultiMAT2 is under the MIT License MAT2 is under the GNU Lesser General Public License