# sys required to access arguments
import sys;
from os import listdir, makedirs; # listdir required to access OS-related stuff
from os.path import isfile, isdir, join; # required to determine whether something is a file
from shutil import move; #lets us move files
# get the path from the cli arguments
path = sys.argv[1];
# get a list of files
files = listdir(path);
for file in files:
# check if it is a file
if isfile(join(path,file)):
#if so, determine whether this is renameable
if file[0] == '[':
# grab the next three letters, filter out spaces
prefix = file.replace(' ', '').lower()[1:4];
# check to make sure closing bracket is not in prefix
if prefix.find(']') == -1:
# check if directory already exists
if not isdir(join(path,prefix)):
makedirs(join(path,prefix));
filepath = join(path,file);
destpath = join(path,prefix);
move(filepath,destpath);
I’m starting to get into Python a bit more lately. As a practice run, I re-scripted this old file sorter I had done years ago in bash.
The script should take a directory as a parameter and sort the contents within into folders based on the three-letter prefix of the files. For this to work, the files do need to be named in that weird way comics seem to be, i.e.
[Author] Title Vol Issue.cbr
It will then create a series of subdirectories based on the author name and move the file there, i.e.
./aut
…or if the directory exists, the file will just be moved there without creating a new folder.
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