Python file copy

Do you need to copy 100s of files? Python is great tool to automate this task. It has built-in module shutil with copy2() function that can copy file with file's metadata.

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Let's used documents directory in this notebook:

documents/
├── best-moments.mp4
├── music
│   ├── bass-guitar-sample.mp3
│   ├── first-song.mp3
│   ├── italo-disco.mp3
│   └── rave.wav
├── my-cv.pdf
├── phd-thesis.txt
├── todo.txt
└── video
    ├── holidays-2023.mp4
    ├── holidays-2024.mp4
    └── zoo.mov

We would like to copy best-moments.mp4 file to video directory.

# import packages
import shutil
# copy file
shutil.copy2(r"/home/piotr/documents/best-moments.mp4", r"/home/piotr/documents/video")
print("File copied")

The documents directory after file copy:

documents/
├── best-moments.mp4
├── music
│   ├── bass-guitar-sample.mp3
│   ├── first-song.mp3
│   ├── italo-disco.mp3
│   └── rave.wav
├── my-cv.pdf
├── phd-thesis.txt
├── todo.txt
└── video
    ├── best-moments.mp4
    ├── holidays-2023.mp4
    ├── holidays-2024.mp4
    └── zoo.mov

We have best-moments.mp4 file in documents and documents/video directories. File was copied with Python.

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