Extract files from a directory to another by file extensions
Due to the complexity of the folders created for testdisk, I decided to implement a script to get the data I am interest in.
Copy this script and save it as script.py in the directory you would like to scan. Run the script on the terminal by:
python script.py “/home/username/path-to-folder”
The argument is the path where you are going to save your extracted files.
import os import shutil import sys, getopt from os.path import join, getsize def main(argv): path = '.' try: opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv,"") except getopt.GetoptError: print 'script.py "path"' sys.exit(2) for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path): for name in files: if name.endswith((".jpg",".mov",".mp4")) and getsize(join(root,name))/1024 > 100: print name, getsize(join(root,name))/1024 shutil.copy2(join(root,name), args[0]) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])
Once finished you will have in the folder you specified all the files greater than 100Kb and with extensions “.jpg”,”.mov” and “.mp4”. Feel free to add the extensions you want.
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