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dc6463 · Jun 14th, 2005, 2:41 PM

how can i copy all files containing a certain string (in the file) to another directory using python on windows?

i got lots of help from the bash forum getting it to work in OS X, but if possible i'd really like to run it straight on the server which is running windows.

thanks in advance for your help,

hydroxide · Jun 14th, 2005, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dc6463

how can i copy all files containing a certain string (in the file) to another directory using python on windows?

Assuming that none of your files are going to be huge (ie: hundreds of megabytes) the following should work:

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import os
import shutil

SOURCEDIR = "C:/Somedir"
DESTDIR = "C:/Anotherdir"
FINDSTR = "Somestring"

for fname in os.listdir(SOURCEDIR):
    sourcefile = os.path.join(SOURCEDIR, fname)
    if FINDSTR in open(sourcefile).read():
        destfile = os.path.join(DESTDIR, fname)
        shutil.copyfile(sourcefile, destfile)

--OH.

dc6463 · Jun 15th, 2005, 7:26 AM

perfect. works great.

thanks a lot for the help!

Dietrich · Jun 15th, 2005, 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hydroxide

Assuming that none of your files are going to be huge (ie: hundreds of megabytes) the following should work:

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import os
import shutil

SOURCEDIR = "C:/Somedir"
DESTDIR = "C:/Anotherdir"
FINDSTR = "Somestring"

for fname in os.listdir(SOURCEDIR):
    sourcefile = os.path.join(SOURCEDIR, fname)
    if FINDSTR in open(sourcefile).read():
        destfile = os.path.join(DESTDIR, fname)
        shutil.copyfile(sourcefile, destfile)

--OH.

This gives me an
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ...
when there are subdirectories present.

hydroxide · Jun 16th, 2005, 11:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dietrich

This gives me an
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ...
when there are subdirectories present.

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for fname in os.listdir(SOURCEDIR):
    sourcefile = os.path.join(SOURCEDIR, fname)
    try:
        if FINDSTR in open(sourcefile).read():
            destfile = os.path.join(DESTDIR, fname)
            shutil.copyfile(sourcefile, destfile)
    except IOError:
            pass

--OH.

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