What script to paste folders

[thenewcoder]

Hello,

I'm new with python.
For my work i have to handle many files and folders.

I'm looking for a script which can copy a subfolder and past it in many other folders.

Is ti possible please ?

[Pedroski55]

If you use Linux, no need to bother with Python. You can use the commands below in a bash terminal, or make a bash script to do this.

You need to know what you want to copy and where you want to copy it to!

the -r flag stands for recursive, then cp will copy the directory and the contents to the destination.

# copy a file to 2 different folders the format is: echo destination1 destination2 | xargs -n 1 cp /path/to/sourcefile.something
echo /home/pedro/tmp/ /home/pedro/uploads/ | xargs -n 1 cp -v /home/pedro/temp/b.txt

# copy a whole directory to another directory the format is: cp -rv source destination
cp -rv /home/pedro/temp/ /home/pedro/tmp/

# copy a directory to 2 different directories the format is: echo /path1/ /path2/ /path3/ | xargs -n 1 cp -rv /path/to/directory/
echo /home/pedro/tmp/ /home/pedro/uploads/ | xargs -n 1 cp -rv /home/pedro/temp/

Fast and easy!

If you use Windows, you can probably do this in a similar fashion, but I don't know how!

To do this using Python, probably best to use the module shutil