Python copy all files from one folder to another

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. Copying the ". Only missing part is substituting with right information as below:. This should do the trick. Also read the documentation of the shutil module to choose the function that fits your needs shutil. A little bit cooked code with log feature. You can also configure this to run at some period of time using crontab. For example, if I wanted to move all.

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Viewed k times. I want to move all text files from one folder to another folder using Python. Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Parameters: src is the file path in string dst can be a directory path or another file path in string. Returns : Advertisements. Agree that this seems totally arbitrary! No part of the code actually would have a problem with a pre-existing dir.

This needs to be changed. This is a good answer - however Mital Vora's answer below is worth looking at also. They have called copytree recursively rather than calling shutil.

Possibly consider merging answers or updating to Mital Vora's. This fails if given a path that includes a directory which is not empty in the destination. Meh, super-annoying. It's 4 years later, and shutil.

Given that, there's no compelling reason to attempt to unroll your own Brendan Abel 's answer should absolutely be the accepted solution now. Show 8 more comments. Therefore, with Python 3. Chris Chris k 65 65 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Jay, only if the directory already exists. Thanks, if you add a comment near the first copy, I think it would make it clearer : — Jay.

Path objects as src and dst arguments : distutils. A pathlib. Show 1 more comment. When we come to actually copying the file I check if the file is modified then only we should copy. Mital Vora Mital Vora 2, 16 16 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Nice, except that you have symlinks and ignore as arguments, but they are ignored. Using this code in a context where updates happen in rapid succession, you may find overrides don't take place.

There is a bug in the second-to-last line, should be: if not os. What's the purpose of the third and fourth parameters of copytree? Those 2 parameters -- symlinks, ignore -- are never used, so they could be ommitted, right? A merge one inspired by atzz and Mital Vora:! Cyrille Pontvieux Cyrille Pontvieux 1, 1 1 gold badge 17 17 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges.

This is much much faster than original solution when the directory nesting is deep. Thanks — Kashif. Did you define a function also named 'ignore' in code elsewhere? You can define any function with any name you like before calling copytree function. This function which could also be a lambda expression takes two arguments: a directory name and the files in it, it should return an iterable of ignore files.

This is great. The ignore was not being utilized correctly in the above answer. I was trying to have wildcards in the shutil copy, but did not have any luck. Thanks, JT. Improve this question. Do all the Apple files actually contain the string Apple , and similar for Intel , etc? Thank you for your question. All the files will have Applex. There will never be confusion in that a string would have apple and intel. I just want to ignore the rest of the strings except for the common element and then drop those in an Apple folder roughly 13 files.

All of the files have headers such that you can't sort all the apple files together easily. I would like to learn how to have this for 2 cases apple, intel in this example so I can see the mechanics and understand how it differs from 1 case and expand it to n cases as appropriate.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Andreas Myriounis Andreas Myriounis 5 5 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges.

Wouldn't shutil. In order to get this to work for me I had to do os.