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user1394
user1394

Reputation: 588

Strip intermediate folders in filepath name (Python)

I have a path /foo/bar/poo/car and there are files in the directory car. I want to end up with /foo/bar with the same files in bar. I realized this is wrong since it doesn't maintain the files:

>>> import os
>>> os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname('/foo/bar/poo/car'))
'/foo/bar'

I guess I would have to first move the files from car to bar and then do the above? Is there a cleaner or easier way to perform this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 519

Answers (2)

Mace
Mace

Reputation: 1410

You must get all the files absolute paths first with glob. Then you can move these files with shutil.move

import glob
import os
import shutil


source_dir = r'R:/foo/bar/poo/car'
dest_dir = r'R:/foo/bar'

# get all file path
all_files_path = glob.glob(os.path.join(source_dir, '*.*'))

# move the files to the new dir
for file_path in all_files_path:
    shutil.move(file_path, dest_dir)

Upvotes: 1

Lutz Horn
Lutz Horn

Reputation: 62

Use pathlib.Path:

from pathlib import Path

p = Path('/foo/bar/poo/car')
bar = p.parent.parent
print(bar)

Output:

/foo/bar

To move files, use shutil.move.

Upvotes: 1

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