WWW:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hkovaska/fsl/
Author: Kristian Ovaska
(kristian.ovaska [at] helsinki.fi)
License: BSD
Version: 0.5.2 (2007-03-05)
Requirements: Python 2.3 or greater
Platforms: Unix, Windows
File Selection Language (FSL) is a descriptive language for file selection. It is used to selectively pick files from a directory structure. FSL is useful for selective backups, for instance. FSL uses glob patterns as the basic building block. For fine-tuning the selection, inclusion/exclusion rule combinations and conditional expressions are available. File size and modification date can be used in expressions.
Report bugs, send suggestions and give feedback to the author.
See documentation:
Version | File | Size | MD5 |
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FSL 0.5 | fsl-0.5.zip | 72 KB | 2d5888b27f66889ceb99732ca798243c |
FSL 0.5.1 | fsl-0.5.1.zip | 72 KB | cc7703e15fcda7bb9e3cf92da9b84c8f |
FSL 0.5.2 | fsl-0.5.2.zip | 75 KB | fff85cac5969d76b58eb6d14a14c4ed5 |
IN home *.gif, *.jpg, *.png IN alfred EACH f IN *.ps, *.eps IF age(f) < 365 *.pdf NONREC # non-recursive usr NOT usr/local/*.sh NOT EACH f IN a* IF size(f) > 1000000 OR extract(date(f), "year") = 2001
This example program:
FSL can be used with a command line tool (fsltool) or, for Python programmers, with a programmable interface. For the Python interface, see the documentation of Interpreter.py.
Several FSL rule files can be combined in a cascading manner similar to CSS. The effect is the same as if the rule files were pasted into a single file.
Support for both Windows-like and Unix-like paths.
Strict parse-time type checking to catch as many errors as possible
before run-time. For example, you can't say
EACH f IF size(5) > 1000
because function
size
expects filename argument.
python setup.py install
.
This installs FSL into your site-packages directory.
You must have write permissions under site-packages.
import fsl.fsltool
in a Python
session.
testall.py
under fsl/test/. The tests take some time to finish.
Expected result: one test fails
(test_lexer.TestLexer.test_invalid
), all others pass.
If you get this result, you can assume the program is installed correctly.
If more tests fail, try to see if there is something obviously
wrong with the installation or environment; if not, contact the author.