Moving folders with content
jyoung79 at kc.rr.com
jyoung79 at kc.rr.com
Sat Sep 15 00:36:00 EDT 2012
Hello,
I am working in both OS X Snow Leopard and Lion (10.6.8 and 10.7.4).
I'm simply wanting to move folders (with their content) from various
servers to the hard drive and then back to different directories on the
servers.
I want to be careful not to remove any metadata or resource forks from
the files in the directories. I did a bit of researching on shutil, and
looks like it is similar to using "cp -p" and copystat(), which I believe
will keep the resource fork, etc.
Here's the code I came up with. I'm curious if anyone finds fault with
this, or if there's a better way to do this?
Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jun 16 2011, 16:59:05)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2335.15.00)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>> import os
>>> import shutil
>>>
>>> p1 = os.path.expanduser('~/Desktop/IN/Test/')
>>> p2 = os.path.expanduser('~/Desktop/OUT/Test/')
>>>
>>> if os.path.exists(p2): shutil.rmtree(p2)
...
>>> shutil.copytree(p1, p2)
>>> shutil.rmtree(p1)
>>>
Thanks!
Jay
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