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Python script create folders from filename

Searching a python script thats move files to directions created based on the filenames.

Ex.

Filename is ARC20180810185310.jpg

Move that file to:
2018>08

ARC20180810185310.jpg

2018>08

Filename is ARC20180910185310.jpg

Move that file to:
2018>09

ARC20180910185310.jpg

2018>09

3 Answers
3

It's good to try something yourself first, the ask on SO - you learn much more that way.

I would try:

import os
from shutil import copyfile
folder_path = '*folder path*'
os.chdir(folder_path)
for file in os.listdir(folder_path)
year = file[3:7]
month = file[7:9]
final_path = folder_path + '/' + year + '>' + month + '/' + file + .jpg'
copyfile(file, final_path)


Just replace the paths in ** with whatever you need.

This way you slice the file name and get year and month from it (characters from 3 to 6 and 7,8), then copyfile to a path consisting of both year and month that you sliced.

Just replace the srcDir and dstDir, you will get your file.jpg moved, if you use MoveFile(srcDir, dstDir, resuisive=True), you will move the file.jpg in the sub-dir of the srcDir too.

from __future__ import print_function
import os, re, shutil

class MoveFile(object):
def __init__(self, srcDir, dstDir, recursive=False, flag='.JPG'):
self.srcDir = srcDir
self.dstDir = dstDir
self.recursive = recursive
self.flag = flag
self.duplicateFileName =
self.badFileName =
self.jpgFile =
self.srcDirDict =

def findAllJPG(self):
# recursively find file
if self.recursive == False:
for item in os.listdir(self.srcDir):
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(self.srcDir,item)) and
os.path.splitext(item)[-1] == self.flag.lower():
self.jpgFile.append(item)
else:
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(self.srcDir):
for item in files:
if os.path.splitext(item)[-1] == self.flag.lower():
self.jpgFile.append(item)
self.srcDirDict[item] = root

if not self.jpgFile:
print('NOT FIND ANY JPG FILE!')
return self.jpgFile

def parse(self, text):
try:
pat =re.compile('[a-zA-Z]+([d]+)')
match = pat.match(text)
data = match.group(1)
fileName = data[:4]+'-'+data[4:6]
except TypeError:
self.badFileName.append(text)
fileName = None
return fileName

def move(self, text):
try:
fileName = self.parse(text)
if fileName == None: return
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(self.dstDir, fileName)):
os.mkdir(os.path.join(self.dstDir,fileName))

srcPath= os.path.join(self.srcDirDict[text], text)
dstDir = os.path.join(self.dstDir, fileName)
shutil.move(srcPath, dstDir)
except:
self.duplicateFileName.append(text)
raise

@staticmethod
def decC(dir):
return os.path.join(self.srcDir,dir)

def run(self):
try:
if not os.path.isdir(self.dstDir):
os.mkdir(self.dstDir)
for text in self.findAllJPG():
self.move(text)
print('MOVE SUCCESSFUL!')
except:
raise

srcDir = r'C:UsersAdministratorDesktop2'
dstDir = r'C:UsersAdministratorDesktop3'
fmv = MoveFile(srcDir, dstDir, recursive = False)

fmv.run()


First of all you will need glob.glob() function to find all files in given directory:

files = glob.glob('ARC*.jpg')


Then you will need to extract some parts of filename:

year = filename[3:7]
month = filename[7:9]


Use os.makedirs() with exist_ok=True and create the dirs:

os.makedirs(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, year, month))


Then use shutil.move to move file to specific directory

shutil.move(filename, os.path.join(BASE_DIR, year, month, filename))


Finally you will get something like this:

import glob
import os.path
import shutil

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))

files = glob.glob('ARC*.jpg')
for filename in files:
year = filename[3:7]
month = filename[7:9]
try:
os.makedirs(os.path.join(BASE_DIR, year, month))
except OSError:
pass
shutil.move(filename, os.path.join(BASE_DIR, year, month, filename))


year

month

0180

2018

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