cam_folder_organizer.py

#! /usr/bin/python
import sys
import os
import re
import time
import shutil

def get_all_files(dir):
    files = dict()
    for dirName, subdirList, fileList in os.walk(dir):
        print('Found directory: %s' % dirName)
        for fname in fileList:
            print('\t%s' % fname)
            _path = dirName+'/'+fname
            if _path not in files:
                files[_path] = dict()
            files[_path]["name"] = fname
            # files[_path]["dir"] = dirName
            files[_path]["dir"] = dirName[-3:]
            print files[_path]
    return files


def format_files(out_dir, files):
    # create/check output directory
    try:
        os.stat(out_dir)
    except:
        print 'Output director', out_dir, 'is not present. Creating it!'
        os.mkdir(out_dir)


    for file in files.keys():
        # print "created: %s" % time.ctime(os.path.getctime(file))
        print "file name: ", str(files[file]["name"]), "dir: ", str(files[file]["dir"]), " last modified: ", str(time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(file)))
        _time = time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(file))
        parsed = time.strptime(_time)
        lm_time = time.strftime("%H-%M-%S", parsed)

        new_file_name = lm_time + '_' + files[file]["dir"] + '_' + files[file]["name"]
        print new_file_name
        shutil.copy2(file, out_dir + '/' + new_file_name)


def main():
    if len(sys.argv) == 3:
        cam_dir_parse = sys.argv[1]
        output_dir = sys.argv[2]
    else:
        print "Expects command line arguments. Cam directory and Output directory"
        sys.exit(1)

    files = get_all_files(cam_dir_parse)
    format_files(output_dir, files)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

executing:
python cam_folder_organizer.py ~/casper/cam1 ./tmp