rightclick

rightClick

Deep cut, copy, paste & delete fuctionality for Node.js.

About

rightClick attempts to emulate the expected behaviour of mouse interactions with file systems in a programatic way. Namely cut, copy, paste & delete.

Installation

npm install rightclick

API

cut()

To deep cut from the file system use:

rightClick('./myParentFolder').cut('myDesiredFileOrFolder');

This will write the full contents and structure of your target to righClick's clipboard and delete the file(s) and or folder(s) from the file system.

The argument passed to cut() can be either a string or an array of strings, such as:

rightClick('./folder').cut(['file.js', 'folder', 'otherFile.md']);

copy()

To deep copy from the file system use:

rightClick('./myParentFolder').copy('myDesiredFileOrFolder');

This will write the full contents and structure of your target to rightClick's clipboard.

The argument passed to copy() can be either a string or an array of strings, such as:

rightClick('./folder').copy(['file.js', 'folder', 'otherFile.md']);

paste()

To deep paste to the file system, usually in conjunction with copy() or cut() use:

rightClick('./myParentFolder').copy('myFolder').paste('myNewDestination');

This will copy the entire contents of the clipboard to the target folder which must exist.

del()

To deep delete from the file system use:

rightClick('./myParentFolder').del('myDesiredFileOrFolder');

This will delete the full contents and structure of a target folder or simply delete a file if that is the target. This is NOT reversable and nothing is written to the clipboard. Use with caution and certainty.

Licence

MIT

Changelog

13 December 2012, 0.1.1

• Changelog added
• NPM installation instructions in README
• Added test folder structure