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Split a folder with many files into subfolders with N files. Usage: python folder_splitter.py path/to/target/folder
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- | |
# @author: Peter Lamut | |
import argparse | |
import os | |
import shutil | |
N = 10 # the number of files in seach subfolder folder | |
def move_files(abs_dirname): | |
"""Move files into subdirectories.""" | |
files = [os.path.join(abs_dirname, f) for f in os.listdir(abs_dirname)] | |
i = 0 | |
curr_subdir = None | |
for f in files: | |
# create new subdir if necessary | |
if i % N == 0: | |
subdir_name = os.path.join(abs_dirname, '{0:03d}'.format(i / N + 1)) | |
os.mkdir(subdir_name) | |
curr_subdir = subdir_name | |
# move file to current dir | |
f_base = os.path.basename(f) | |
shutil.move(f, os.path.join(subdir_name, f_base)) | |
i += 1 | |
def parse_args(): | |
"""Parse command line arguments passed to script invocation.""" | |
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( | |
description='Split files into multiple subfolders.') | |
parser.add_argument('src_dir', help='source directory') | |
return parser.parse_args() | |
def main(): | |
"""Module's main entry point (zopectl.command).""" | |
args = parse_args() | |
src_dir = args.src_dir | |
if not os.path.exists(src_dir): | |
raise Exception('Directory does not exist ({0}).'.format(src_dir)) | |
move_files(os.path.abspath(src_dir)) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
main() |
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This is awesome. My requirement is exactly similar to this. I want to move upto 200 files into each folder but with file start characters by nesting it.
For example,
If filename starts with 'absolute.txt', 'ab.txt', 'bingo.txt' it would be moved to "a" folder after that inside "a" folder, if files are more than 200 it need to create another folder inside "a" as "aa",ab" and so on, after that inside "aa" if there is more than 200 files inside "aa" folder it would need to create "aaa","aab" and so on.
This will make organize easy to get to required file