I'm trying to automate moving files from one windows directory to another, having the origin and destination directories in a config file.
I've gotten it to work if there is only 1 line in the config file containing the paths.The shutil command also works if I hardcode the paths in the script, but that's not the idea.I need to loop through a list of directories and run the code per origin and destination
This is the entry in the .conf file:
c:\\temp\O D |c:\\temp\D D I split the line on the |, and and then I've tried the os.path.join and os.path.normpath but shutil keeps throwing the double backslashes if I add a row to the conf file.
If I add another row, then it throws this error:
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\temp\D D \test1.txt'
this is my code so far....
import shutilimport osimport os.pathimport datetimefrom pathlib import Pathfilepath = r'c:\temp\acc.conf.txt'with open(filepath) as fp: for cnt, line in enumerate(fp): print("Line {}: {}".format(cnt, line)) a,b = line.split('| ') source= Path(a) source1=os.path.join(source) source_path = os.path.normpath(source1) #print(source_path) print(b) dst= Path(b) dst1=os.path.join(dst) dest_path = os.path.normpath(dst1) #print(dest_path) os.chdir(source_path) #print(os.getcwd()) files = os.listdir(os.getcwd()) now = datetime.datetime.now() run_time= now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") for f in files: print(run_time +" - " + f +"- " + os.getcwd() +"- " + dest_path) #shutil.move(f, dest_path) print(f) print(dest_path) shutil.move(f, dest_path)