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pythonpython-2.7
John
John

Reputation: 3070

How to copy all files to a folder from path in a txt file?

I have a folder image (JPGE_Image) that contains jpg images as follows:

1.jpg
2.jpg
3.jpg
...
100.jpg

I have other text file which contains the path of these selected jpeg images (not all images, just selected as 1.jpg, 3.jpg...) as

/home/users/JPGE_Image/1.jpg
/home/users/JPGE_Image/3.jpg
/home/users/JPGE_Image/5.jpg
...
/home/users/JPGE_Image/99.jpg

I want to copy selected image in the text file to other folder named Selected_Folder. How could I do it in python 2.7. Thank all. This is what I tried, but it does not get information from text file

import os
import shutil

srcfile = '/home/users/JPGE_Image/1.jpg'
dstroot = '/home/users/Selected_Folder'


assert not os.path.isabs(srcfile)
dstdir =  os.path.join(dstroot, os.path.dirname(srcfile))

os.makedirs(dstdir) # create all directories, raise an error if it already exists
shutil.copy(srcfile, dstdir)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1561

Answers (2)

Martin Evans
Martin Evans

Reputation: 46759

You just need to apply your logic on a line by line basis as follows:

import os
import shutil

text_file_list = 'my_text_file.txt'
dstroot = '/home/users/Selected_Folder'

try:
    os.makedirs(dstroot)
except OSError as e:     # catch exception if folder already exists
    pass

with open(text_file_list) as f_input:
    for srcfile_path in f_input:
        srcfile_path = srcfile_path.strip()
        srcfile = os.path.split(srcfile_path)[1]
        dstdir = os.path.join(dstroot, srcfile)
        shutil.copy(srcfile_path, dstdir)

As you read each line, use strip() to remove the trailing newline. Then use os.path.split() to get just the filename of the source. This can then be joined to your dstdir.

Upvotes: 2

Yiroro
Yiroro

Reputation: 39

You can read the paths from txt file line by line, like this:

with open(txtfile_path) as f:
    for srcfile in f:
        shutil.copy(srcfile, dstdir)

Upvotes: 3

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