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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

BartlebyScrivener 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, BartlebyScrivener <> 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?

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

BartlebyScrivener 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.quelquech...@free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:

>
> 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

"Artificial stupidity (AS) may be defined as the attempt by computer
scientists to create computer programs capable of causing problems
of a type normally associated with human thought."

--Wallace Marshal