Copying files from sub folders under source directories into sub folders with same names as source directory sub folders in destination directories without overwriting already existing files of same name.

[alister]

On Tue, 20 May 2014 05:28:09 -0700, Satish ML wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 5:54:47 PM UTC+5:30, Satish ML wrote:
>> On Tuesday, May 20, 2014 5:51:19 PM UTC+5:30, Satish ML wrote: > On
>> Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:27:01 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On
>> Monday, May 19, 2014 2:32:36 PM UTC+5:30, Satish ML wrote: > On Monday,
>> May 19, 2014 12:31:05 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > > On Mon,
>> May 19, 2014 at 4:53 PM, wrote: > Could you kindly help? Sure. Either
>> start writing code and then post when you have problems, or investigate
>> some shell commands (xcopy in Windows, cp in Linux, maybe scp) that can
>> probably do the whole job. Or pay someone to do the job for you. ChrisA
>> > Hi ChrisAngelico, > Consider that source and destination directories
>> are given in a .xls(excel) file. > This is the code > import xlrd, sys,
>> subprocess > file_location = "C:\Users\salingeg\Desktop\input.xls" >
>> workbook = xlrd.open_workbook(file_location) > sheet =
>> workbook.sheet_by_index(0) > sheet.cell_value(0, 0) > for row in
>> range(sheet.nrows): > values = [] > values.append(sheet.cell_value(row,
>> 1)) > destination = [] > destination.append(sheet.cell_value(row, 2)) >
>> for s in values: > for d in destination: > If I am using cp or xcopy
>> command, it will copy all files from s to d. > shutil.copy(s, d) can't
>> be used here because it overwrites files in d. Kindly help. have u
>> tried using
>> https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.exists ? I have
>> tried it. But how does it help? We won't be able to make out whether
>> source file is present in destination directory. If we can do that,
>> like if (source file exists in destination directory) print "exists"
>> continue else shutil.copy(s, d)
> 
> Here we don't have the option of manually giving the file path. It has
> to be read from .xls file (i.e. from the two lists in code)

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