Question

I have 700 files in a single folder. I need to find files that have “h10v03” as part of the name and copy them to a different folder using python.

Heres an example of one of the files: MOD10A1.A2000121.h10v03.005.2007172062725.hdf

I appreciate any help.

Answer 1

Does it need to be python?
A unix shell does that for you quite fine:

cp ./*h10v03* /other/directory/

In python I would suggest you take a look at os.listdir() and shutil.copy()

EDIT:
some untested code:

import os
import shutil

src_dir = "/some/path/"
target_dir = "/some/other/path/"
searchstring = "h10v03"

for f in os.listdir(src_dir):
   if searchstring in f and os.path.isfile(os.path.join(src_dir, f)):
      shutil.copy2(os.path.join(src_dir, f), target_dir)
      print "COPY", f

with the glob module (untested):

import glob
import os
import shutil

for f in glob.glob("/some/path/*2000*h10v03*"):
   print f
   shutil.copy2(f, os.path.join("/some/target/dir/", os.path.basename(f)))