January 2nd, 2013 
Step 1
Open any text editor (gedit,pico,vi,nano) then enter the following python script and save the file with .py extension.
#!/usr/bin/python
#Author : Jijo K Jose
import shutil
print "\n————————————\nChapter 17 – High level File I/O \n————————————\n"
s = shutil
s.copy("data1","data5")
print "File data1 copied to data5 -shutil.copy() \n"
s.copy2("data1","data6")
print "File data1 copied to data6 without changing timestamp -shutil.copy1() \n"
s.move("data5","temp/data7")
print "File data5 moved to temp/data5 -shutil.move() \n"
srcdir = "temp"
desdir = "temp2"
s.rmtree(desdir)
print "Remove the whole directory tree -shutil.rmtree() \n"
s.copytree(srcdir,desdir)
print "Copy the whole directory tree -shutil.copytree() \n"
print "\n—————————————-"
#END
