mansel-cli

mansel-cli is a command line tool for manually selecting files and directories from a tree view.

Features

• Graphical user interface with a tree view of the directory structure.
• Support for pre-selection of paths in the directory tree.
• Running total of the size of selected directories and files.
• Running total of selection size calculated in a background thread.

Installation

mansel-cli can be installed with pip:

pip install mansel-cli

This will install mansel along with PySide2.

Usage

mansel-cli provides an executable script called mansel which should be installed into the environment's path. It can be invoked as

mansel --path PATH --selection SELECTION

where PATH is the root path to use for file selection and SELECTION is a file containing a newline delimited list of paths relative to PATH which should be selected when the file selection window opens. Invoking mansel opens a dialog window with the contents of PATH shown as an expandable tree view with checkboxes by every file and directory. Individual files and directories can be selected and unselected and directories can be expanded to select individual files on paths below PATH. When OK is pressed to exit the window, the list of selected files and directories is printed to stdout.

Usage notes

• If SELECTION is -, then the selection list is read from stdin.
• A running tally of the current selection size is shown at the bottom of the window. The calculation is performed on a background thread. The size total is followed by "(Calculating)" while the selection size is being re-tallied.
• Cancel, Ctrl+W, Ctrl+Q all close the window without printing to stdout.
• Ctrl+Enter is equivalent to pressing OK.
• mansel-cli is a wrapper for mansel. Effectively, installing mansel-cli instealls mansel and PySide2 (mansel does not list PySide2 as a dependency to allow it to be used with PyQt5 as well) and sets up a wrapper sript that calls python -m mansel.

Contributing

mansel-cli is distributed under the permissive 0BSD license. Outside contirubtions are welcome. Contributions should be licensed under the 0BSD license. If you want your name added to the contributors list, add it to AUTHORS.md as part of your submission.

While the license does not require acknowledgement, acknowledgement is still appreciated if you use mansel in your project. If you make improvement to mansel, please share them if sharing is feasible.