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Moving Files From Subdirectories To Another Directory
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Can you show the error when you try? This code moves a "foo" file to the "target" directory.

from pathlib import Path
import shutil

p = Path(".")
for item in p.glob('**/*foo'):
    print(item)
    shutil.move(str(item), r"target")
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RE: Moving Files From Subdirectories To Another Directory - by bowlofred - Oct-06-2020, 08:20 AM

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