I recently moved from XP to Linux, but would like to use Python
whenever possible.
line from bash script:
find ~/Mail -xdev -type f \( -mtime 0 -or -mtime 1 \) -exec cp -aPvu
"{}" /backup-dest \;
What modules would I use to accomplish this in Python? Or any other
Python tricks to copy or backup all files modified today?
Thank you,
rd
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BartlebyScriven er wrote:
I recently moved from XP to Linux, but would like to use Python
whenever possible.
line from bash script:
find ~/Mail -xdev -type f \( -mtime 0 -or -mtime 1 \) -exec cp -aPvu
"{}" /backup-dest \;
What modules would I use to accomplish this in Python? Or any other
Python tricks to copy or backup all files modified today?
Thank you,
rd
"You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"--Steven Wright
os.walk to walk directories
os.stat to get modification time of file
os.shutl to copy file somewhere
-Larry
On 1 Mar 2007 12:14:43 -0800, BartlebyScriven er <rp*******@gmai l.comwrote:
I recently moved from XP to Linux, but would like to use Python
whenever possible.
line from bash script:
find ~/Mail -xdev -type f \( -mtime 0 -or -mtime 1 \) -exec cp -aPvu
"{}" /backup-dest \;
What modules would I use to accomplish this in Python? Or any other
Python tricks to copy or backup all files modified today?
You can probably replicate that using the modules os and shutil.
Specifically, os.walk to traverse your directory tree, os.stat to get
the modification time, and shutil.copy to copy files around. You
might also look at the stat module, which appears to have some helpers
for dealing with os.stat results.
On the other hand, you could also just use os.system or the subprocess
module to wrap your call to the find utility.
--
Jerry
You can probably replicate that using the modules os and shutil.
Thank you both for the quick response.
rd
BartlebyScriven er a écrit :
I recently moved from XP to Linux, but would like to use Python
whenever possible.
line from bash script:
find ~/Mail -xdev -type f \( -mtime 0 -or -mtime 1 \) -exec cp -aPvu
"{}" /backup-dest \;
What modules would I use to accomplish this in Python? Or any other
Python tricks to copy or backup all files modified today?
MHO is that you'd better learn linux (well... Unix) tools. Reinventing
the SquareWheel(tm) is usually not a good idea.
On Mar 1, 3:58 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelque ch...@free.quel quepart.frwrote :
>
MHO is that you'd better learn linux (well... Unix) tools. Reinventing
the SquareWheel(tm) is usually not a good idea.
I agree. It's just a matter of experience and learning when to use
Unix tools and when to use Python.
The question never came up on Windows :)
Thanks,
rd
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