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Dmitriy D
Dmitriy D

Reputation: 15

Copying files with a specific name to another folder

I have folder with 1500 txt files and also folder with 20000 jpg files. 1500 of jpg files are named the same as txt files. I need that these jpg files with names similar to txt files to be moved to another folder. To put it simply, I have txt files from 1(1) to 5(500), I need to move only files with the name from 1(1) to 5(500) from the folder with jpg files from 0(1) to 9(500). I tried to write a program in Python via shutil, but I don't understand how to enter all 1500 valuse, so that only these files are moved. Please tell me how to do this? Thanks in advance! I found all the names of txt files and tried to copy pictures from another folder with the same names. Example on pictures: I have this names I have this names I need to copy only this images, because their names are the same as the names of txt: I need to copy only this images, because their names are the same as the names of txt 

import os
import glob
import shutil


source_txt = 'C:\obj\TXT'
dir = 'C:\obj\Fixed_cars'
vendors =['C:\obj\car']

files_txt = [os.path.splitext(filename)[0] for filename in os.listdir(source_txt)]

for file in vendors:
     for f in (glob.glob(file)):
         if files_txt in f: # if apple in name, move to new apple dir
             shutil.move(f, dir)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 598

Answers (1)

Sina Meftah
Sina Meftah

Reputation: 131

Well, using this answer on looping through files of a folder you can loop through the files of your folder.

import os

directory = ('your_path_in_string')
txt_files = []
for filename in os.listdir(directory):
    if filename.endswith(".txt"): 
         txt_files.append(filename.rstrip('.txt'))
for filename in os.listdir(directory):
    if (filename.endswith(".jpg") and (filename.rstrip('.jpg') in txt_files)): 
         os.rename(f"path/to/current/{filename}", f"path/to/new/destination/for/{filename}")

for the the moving file part you can read this answer

Upvotes: 0

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