Move Files based on partial Match

[mohamedsalih12]

I want to move files to folders having same name or having part of the file name. I have 60000 files, in the folder (D:/Source) . , there names look like 5000.pdf, 5000..pdf, 5000...pdf till 30000. I want to move all files containing 5000 in its name to the folder D:/Destination/5000. I tried the below script generated by ChatGPT, but does not work.

import os
import shutil

source_folder = "D:\Source"
destination_folder = "D:\Destination"

for filename in os.listdir(source_folder):
source_file = os.path.join(source_folder, filename)
if os.path.isfile(source_file) and destination_folder in filename:
shutil.move(source_file, os.path.join(destination_folder, filename))

[deanhystad]

That's the trouble with AI, it requires a detailed description of the problem. The required level of detail is such that describing the program often takes more time than writing the program.

I think your approach is too limiting. You may as well make this a useful tool that you can use for moving other groups of files. Make a program that copies files matching a pattern to the specified directory. Something like "python copy.py pattern folder" where pattern would be something like "5000*.pdf". But wait, this is what the XCOPY command does in windows. Do you need to write a program at all? If XCOPY doesn't do it for you, take a look at robocopy.

[snippsat]

Use Code tags.
Your description most have been basic and leaving out the 5000 part.
An other problem if don't know Python,then it can be hard to fix or suggest a update from ChatGPT.

Something like this and using pathlib

from pathlib import Path
import shutil

dir_find = '5000'
source_folder = Path("G:/div_code/Source")
des_folder = Path("G:/div_code")
des_subfolder = des_folder / dir_find
for file in source_folder.glob(f"{dir_find}*"):
    # Create the des subfolder if it doesn't exist
    des_subfolder.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
    des_file = des_subfolder / file.name
    # move file can also use .copy
    shutil.move(file, des_file)