I'm trying to write code that will move hundreds of PDF files from a :/Scans folder into another directory based on the matching each client's name. I'm not sure if I should be using Glob, or Shutil, or a combination of both. My working theory is that Glob should work for such a program, as the glob module "finds all the pathnames matching a specified pattern," and then use Shutil to physically move the files?
Here is a breakdown of my file folders to give you a better idea of what I'm trying to do.
Within :/Scans folder I have thousands of PDF files, manually renamed based on client and content, such that the folder looks like this:
lastName, firstName - [contentVariable] (repeat the above 100,000x)
Within the :/J drive of my computer I have a folder named 'Clients' with sub-folders for each and every client, similar to the pattern above, named as 'lastName, firstName'
I'm looking to have the program go through the :/Scans folder and move each PDF to the matching client folder based on 'lastName, firstName'
I've been able to write a simple program to move files between folders, but not one that will do the aforesaid name matching.
shutil.copy('C:/Users/Kenny/Documents/Scan_Drive','C:/Users/Kenny/Documents/Clients')
^ Moving a file from one folder to another.. quite easily done.
Is there a way to modify the above code to apply to a regex (below)?
shutil.copy('C:/Users/Kenny/Documents/Scan_Drive/\w*', 'C:/Users/Kenny/Documents/Clients/\w*')
EDIT: @Byberi - Something as such?
path = "C:/Users/Kenny/Documents/Scans"
dirs = os.path.isfile()
This would print all the files and directories
for file in dirs:
print file
dest_dir = "C:/Users/Kenny/Documents/Clients"
for file in glob.glob(r'C:/*'):
print(file)
shutil.copy(file, dest_dir)
I've consulted the following threads already, but I cannot seem to find how to match and move the files.
Select files in directory and move them based on text list of filenames
https://docs.python.org/3/library/glob.html
Python move files from directories that match given criteria to new directory
https://www.guru99.com/python-copy-file.html
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/regex.html
https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/file-and-directory-operations-using-python--cms-25817