On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:11:30 am Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I use this one-liner for moving photos nested a single folder deep
> into the top-level folder:
> find * -name "*.jpg" | awk -F/ '{print "mv "$0,$1"-"$2}' | sh
>
> I would like to expand this into an application that handles
> arbitrary nesting and smart rename, so I figure that Python is the
> language that I need. I have googled file handling in Python but I
> simply cannot get something to replicate the current functionality of
> that lovely one-liner.
"Lovely"??? What on earth does it do? It's worse than Perl code!!!
*half a wink*
> What fine manual should I be reading? I am not
> asking for code, rather just a link to the right documentation.
See the shell utilities module:
import shutil
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Steven D'Aprano
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