How can I get a specific file from hundreds of folders to move to one folder and rename it?

Question

the file location is: /Users/D/Desktop/Files/1/no.h5 and its the same filename (no.h5) in the folders 1-400. I want all these files to collect in the same folder with their number as their new names.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

You could use a glob pattern to find the target files to do the move. The pathlib library provides a convenient way to manage the paths.

from pathlib import Path

base = Path(" /Users/D/Desktop/Files")
target_folder = Path("/some/where/else")

for target in base.glob("*/no.h5"):
    name = target.parent.name
    if name.isdigit():
        target.rename(target_folder/(name + ".h5"))