How to use the mv command in Python with subprocess

Question

I have a lot of files in /home/somedir/subdir/ and I\'m trying to move them all up to /home/somedir programmatically.

right now I have this:

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Answer 1

You can solve this by adding the parameter shell=True, to take into account wildcards in your case (and so write the command directly, without any list):

subprocess.call("mv /home/somedir/subdir/* somedir/", shell=True)

Without it, the argument is directly given to the mv command with the asterisk. It's the shell job to return every files which match the pattern in general.