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How to Recover Deleted .txt Files from a Backup in Python

A Python function that searches a backup directory recursively and copies all .txt files to a destination folder, printing each recovered file name and a total count.

backup recovery file-operations
Python
import os
import shutil
from pathlib import Path

def recover_deleted_txt_files(source_backup_dir: str, destination_dir: str) -> None:
    """Recover .txt files from backup directory."""
    backup_path = Path(source_backup_dir)
    dest_path = Path(destination_dir)
    dest_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)

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