This should do the trick. Also read the documentation of the shutil module to choose the function that fits your needs (shutil.copy(), shutil.copy2(), shutil.copyfile() or shutil.move()).

import glob, os, shutil

source_dir = '/path/to/dir/with/files' #Path where your files are at the moment
dst = '/path/to/dir/for/new/files' #Path you want to move your files to
files = glob.iglob(os.path.join(source_dir, "*.txt"))
for file in files:
    if os.path.isfile(file):
        shutil.copy2(file, dst)

Please, take a look at implementation of the copytree function which:

• List directory files with:

  names = os.listdir(src)

• Copy files with:

for name in names:
  srcname = os.path.join(src, name)
  dstname = os.path.join(dst, name)
  copy2(srcname, dstname)

Getting dstname is not necessary, because if destination parameter specifies a directory, the file will be copied into dst using the base filename from srcname.

Replace copy2 by move.

Copying the “.txt” file from one folder to another is very simple and question contains the logic. Only missing part is substituting with right information as below:

import os, shutil, glob

src_fldr = r"Source Folder/Directory path"; ## Edit this

dst_fldr = "Destiantion Folder/Directory path"; ## Edit this

try:
  os.makedirs(dst_fldr); ## it creates the destination folder
except:
  print "Folder already exist or some error";

below lines of code will copy the file with *.txt extension files from
src_fldr to dst_fldr

for txt_file in glob.glob(src_fldr+"\*.txt"):
    shutil.copy2(txt_file, dst_fldr);

import shutil 
import os 
import logging

source = '/var/spools/asterisk/monitor' 
dest1 = '/tmp/'


files = os.listdir(source)

for f in files:
        shutil.move(source+f, dest1)

logging.basicConfig(filename='app.log', filemode='w', format='%(name)s
- %(levelname)s - %(message)s')

logging.info('directories moved')

A little bit cooked code with log feature. You can also configure this to run at some period of time using crontab.

* */1 * * * python /home/yourprogram.py > /dev/null 2>&1

runs every hour! cheers

suprised this doesn’t have an answer using pathilib which was introduced in python 3.4+

additionally, shutil updated in python 3.6 to accept a pathlib object more details in this PEP-0519

Pathlib

from pathlib import Path

src_path = 'tmpfiles_to_move'

for each_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.*'): # grabs all files
    trg_path = each_file.parent.parent # gets the parent of the folder 
    each_file.rename(trg_path.joinpath(each_file.name)) # moves to parent folder.

Pathlib & shutil to copy files.

from pathlib import Path
import shutil

src_path = 'tmpfiles_to_move'
trg_path = 'tmp'

for src_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.*'):
    shutil.copy(src_file, trg_path)

For example, if I wanted to move all .txt files from one location to another ( on a Windows OS for instance ) I would do it something like this:

import shutil
import os,glob

inpath = 'R:/demo/in' 
outpath = 'R:/demo/out'

os.chdir(inpath)
for file in glob.glob("*.txt"):

    shutil.move(inpath+'/'+file,outpath)

def copy_myfile_dirOne_to_dirSec(src, dest, ext): 

    if not os.path.exists(dest):    # if dest dir is not there then we create here
        os.makedirs(dest);
        
    for item in os.listdir(src):
        if item.endswith(ext):
            s = os.path.join(src, item);
            fd = open(s, 'r');
            data = fd.read();
            fd.close();
            
            fname = str(item); #just taking file name to make this name file is destination dir     
            
            d = os.path.join(dest, fname);
            fd = open(d, 'w');
            fd.write(data);
            fd.close();
    
    print("Files are copyed successfully")

Move files with filter( using Path, os,shutil modules):

from pathlib import Path
import shutil
import os

src_path ='/media/shakil/New Volume/python/src'
trg_path ='/media/shakil/New Volume/python/trg'

for src_file in Path(src_path).glob('*.txt*'):
    shutil.move(os.path.join(src_path,src_file),trg_path)

Try this:

 if os.path.exists(source_dir):
    try:
        file_names = os.listdir(source_dir)
        if not os.path.exists(target_dir):
            os.makedirs(target_dir)
        for file_name in file_names:
            shutil.move(os.path.join(source_dir, file_name), target_dir)
    except OSError as e:
        print("Error: %s - %s." % (e.filename, e.strerror))
else:
    log.debug(" Directory not exist {}".format(source_dir))

This Script find Docx Files in Directory and create Folder For Docx Files and Move Them into created Directory

import os
import glob
import shutil

docfiles=glob.glob("./**/*.docx" , recursive=True)
if docfiles:
    docdir = os.path.join("./DOCX")
    os.makedirs(docdir , exist_ok = True)
    for docfile in docfiles:
        if docfile in docdir:
            pass
        else:
            shutil.move(os.path.join(docfile),docdir)
            print("Files Moved")