README.md

Module 089: Automation & Scripting (shutil, Scheduling, File Automation)

• Phase: 9. Databases & Web Apps
• Duration: 2 hours

Learning Objectives

• Copy, move, and archive files with shutil
• Match file patterns with glob
• Walk directory trees with os.walk
• Schedule tasks with the schedule library
• Build file organization and backup scripts

Topics Covered

1. shutil module: copy, move, rmtree, make_archive
2. glob for file pattern matching
3. os.walk for directory traversal
4. Scheduling with schedule library or cron
5. File organization scripts
6. Batch file renaming
7. Backup scripts

Prerequisites

Modules 000-088.

Key Concepts

import shutil
import glob
import os
from typing import List

# Copy and archive
shutil.copy('source.txt', 'backup.txt')
shutil.make_archive('backup', 'zip', 'data_folder')

# File pattern matching
pdf_files: List[str] = glob.glob('**/*.pdf', recursive=True)

# Directory traversal
for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('project'):
    for f in filenames:
        print(os.path.join(dirpath, f))

# Scheduling
import schedule
import time

def job() -> None:
    print("Running automated task...")

schedule.every().day.at("09:00").do(job)

Resources

• Python shutil documentation
• Python glob documentation
• schedule library: https://pypi.org/project/schedule
• Cron how-to (Linux/macOS)