Moving all files from one directory to another using Python

Question

I want to move all text files from one folder to another folder using Python. I found this code:

import os, shutil, glob

dst = \'/path/to/dir/Caches/com.app         


        

Answer 1

suprised this doesn't have an answer using pathilib which was introduced in python 3.4+

additionally, shutil updated in python 3.6 to accept a pathlib object more details in this PEP-0519

Pathlib

from pathlib import Path

src_path = '\tmp\files_to_move'

for each_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.*'): # grabs all files
    trg_path = each_file.parent.parent # gets the parent of the folder 
    each_file.rename(trg_path.joinpath(each_file.name)) # moves to parent folder.

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Pathlib & shutil to copy files.

from pathlib import Path
import shutil

src_path = '\tmp\files_to_move'
trg_path = '\tmp'

for src_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.*'):
    shutil.copy(src_file, trg_path)

Answer 2

def copy_myfile_dirOne_to_dirSec(src, dest, ext): 

    if not os.path.exists(dest):    # if dest dir is not there then we create here
        os.makedirs(dest);
        
    for item in os.listdir(src):
        if item.endswith(ext):
            s = os.path.join(src, item);
            fd = open(s, 'r');
            data = fd.read();
            fd.close();
            
            fname = str(item); #just taking file name to make this name file is destination dir     
            
            d = os.path.join(dest, fname);
            fd = open(d, 'w');
            fd.write(data);
            fd.close();
    
    print("Files are copyed successfully")

Answer 3

Try this:

import shutil
import os
    
source_dir = '/path/to/source_folder'
target_dir = '/path/to/dest_folder'
    
file_names = os.listdir(source_dir)
    
for file_name in file_names:
    shutil.move(os.path.join(source_dir, file_name), target_dir)

Answer 4

import shutil 
import os 
import logging

source = '/var/spools/asterisk/monitor' 
dest1 = '/tmp/'


files = os.listdir(source)

for f in files:
        shutil.move(source+f, dest1)

logging.basicConfig(filename='app.log', filemode='w', format='%(name)s
- %(levelname)s - %(message)s')

logging.info('directories moved')

A little bit cooked code with log feature. You can also configure this to run at some period of time using crontab.

* */1 * * * python /home/yourprogram.py > /dev/null 2>&1

runs every hour! cheers

Answer 5

Please, take a look at implementation of the copytree function which:

• List directory files with:

  names = os.listdir(src)

• Copy files with:

for name in names:
  srcname = os.path.join(src, name)
  dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)
  copy2(srcname, dstname)

Getting dstname is not necessary, because if destination parameter specifies a directory, the file will be copied into dst using the base filename from srcname.

Replace copy2 by move.

Answer 6

For example, if I wanted to move all .txt files from one location to another ( on a Windows OS for instance ) I would do it something like this:

import shutil
import os,glob

inpath = 'R:/demo/in' 
outpath = 'R:/demo/out'

os.chdir(inpath)
for file in glob.glob("*.txt"):

    shutil.move(inpath+'/'+file,outpath)