I have a series of files housed inside another file. These files refer to various kitchen dishes and are housed in a file called 'kitchen'. Attached image:
What I would like is to move all the files that have the name "meats-type_of_meat" to another folder, hosted on the same site, which will be called 'meats'. However, when using shutil.move
, I don't know why but the file named "carnes-anade" disappears and only its content appears. I add an image so that it is understood:
As you can see in the image, the file (which I have called 'meats') contains all the folders referring to the type of meat and two .txt files. These two files are the ones that were inside the "meats-anade" folder, and I don't understand why this folder has disappeared and only its files have remained when all I have done is move the folders from one place to another.
I add the code that I have used.
import re
import os
import shutil
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(root_path):
for dire in dirs:
if re.findall(r'carnes-', dire):
shutil.move(os.path.join(root_path, dire),
os.path.join(root_path, 'carnes'))
Where "root_path" refers to the main folder, that is, to 'kitchen', which is where the other food plate folders are located. What I have done is search through the function for re.findall()
all the files that have the string "meats-" and I have moved them to the "meats" folder, which is created directly once I execute the code.
Does anyone know what could be going on?
Thanks in advance.