crude_move_hidden.py

import os, shutil, os.path
"""
Crudely move all "dot"/hidden files from the current directory to a target dir.

... saved me 8GB of disk space and a lot of manual filtering after restoring some hidden files to Desktop.
Of course I could delete the Desktop dir. 20/20 hindsight...
"""

src_dir = "/Users/<user>/Desktop"
target_dir = "/Users/<user>/Desktop/<tgt>"

if not os.path.isdir(target_dir):
	os.makedirs(target_dir)

for idx, cand in enumerate(os.listdir(src_dir)):
    if (cand[0:1] == '.'):
    	print("{} | moving {}".format(idx, cand))

    	shutil.move(cand, target_dir)