#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright (C) 2015 Siddharth Ravikumar <sravik@bgsu.edu>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
# published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
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#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
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import os
import shlex
import time
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from os import path
from subprocess import call
from sys import exit
CP = 'cp'
def dump(from_file, to_file):
"""
Dump from `from_file` to `to_file`
"""
print "Dumping %s -> %s" % (from_file, to_file)
call(shlex.split("%s %s %s" % (CP, from_file,to_file)))
def dump_files(from_dir, to_dir, delay=10, times=1):
"""Dump files from `from_dir` to `to_dir`.
There will be a delay of `delay` seconds between dumping two
files.
The function will dump the files in `from_dir` `times` no. of
times to `to_dir`
"""
for i in xrange(times):
for dirpath, dirnames, files in os.walk(from_dir):
for file_ in files:
from_file = path.join(dirpath, file_)
to_file = path.join(to_dir, '%d-%s' % (i, file_))
dump(from_file, to_file)
time.sleep(delay)
if __name__ == "__main__":
parser = ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('from_dir',
help='Directory from which to take files to dump.')
parser.add_argument('to_dir',
help='Directory to dump files to')
parser.add_argument('-d', '--delay',
help="No. of seconds delay between file dumps.",
type=int, default=10)
parser.add_argument('-t', '--times',
help="No. of times to dump the files",
type=int, default=1)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not path.isdir(args.from_dir):
print "%s does not exists!" % args.from_dir
exit(1)
elif not path.isdir(args.to_dir):
try:
print "Making %s directory" % args.to_dir
os.mkdirs(args.to_dir)
except os.error, e:
print "Error making %s" % args.to_dir
exit(1)
dump_files(args.from_dir, args.to_dir, args.delay, args.times)
