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losmee
losmee

Reputation: 19

Randomize filenames but keep extensions

I am trying to randomize filenames in a directory. The problem is that the extension disappears after renaming. What do I need to change in order to new filenames have their original extensions?

from string import ascii_lowercase
from random import choice, randint, random
import os

def randomize_files(dir):
    for f in os.listdir(dir):
        path = os.path.join(dir, f)
        if os.path.isfile(path):
            newpath = os.path.join(dir, ''.join([choice(ascii_lowercase) for _ in range(randint(5, 8))]))
            os.rename(path, newpath)

randomize_files("/tmp/tset21")

Upvotes: 0

Views: 222

Answers (1)

qmeeus
qmeeus

Reputation: 2422

Well that's normal: if you rename file "abc.txt" to "efg", you remove the extension. os.rename is the equivalent of mv in bash

Instead, what you can do is something like that:

extension = path.split('.')[-1]
new_name = generate_random_name()
os.rename(path, new_name + '.' + extension)

Upvotes: 2

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