randselect

This crate provides a simple command line utility for randomly selecting N files from a directory and copying/moving them to a target directory.

randselect operates (inefficiently) by generating a random permutation of the files in a given directory, then moving/copying the first N files in the resulting permutation to a target directory.

Install

You can install this with Cargo:

$ cargo install randselect

Usage

``` randselect Tool for randomly selecting files from a directory.

USAGE: randselect [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] -i -n -o

FLAGS: -g, --go Execute the copy or move. Specify a seed for deterministic behavior. -h, --help Prints help information -m Whether to move the selected files rather than copy. -c, --no_color Disable colorized output. Only supported in Unix-like OSes. -V, --version Prints version information -v Sets the level of verbosity

OPTIONS: -i The input directory to select from. -n The number of files to select. -o The directory to output to. Will be created if it doesn't exist. -s The seed to use for the PRNG (u64). ```