In Python 3.5 and newer use the new recursive **/ functionality: configfiles = glob.glob(‘C:/Users/sam/Desktop/file1/**/*.txt’, recursive=True) When recursive is set, ** followed by a path separator matches 0 or more subdirectories. In earlier Python versions, glob.glob() cannot list files in subdirectories recursively. In that case I’d use os.walk() combined with fnmatch.filter() instead: import os import fnmatch … Read more
The pattern rules for glob are not regular expressions. Instead, they follow standard Unix path expansion rules. There are only a few special characters: two different wild-cards, and character ranges are supported [from pymotw: glob – Filename pattern matching]. So you can exclude some files with patterns. For example to exclude manifests files (files starting … Read more
No fancy tricks needed: for i in *.java; do [ -f “$i” ] || break … done The guard ensures that if there are no matching files, the loop will exit without trying to process a non-existent file name *.java. In bash (or shells supporting something similar), you can use the nullglob option to simply … Read more
If you use bash and have the extglob shell option set (which is usually the case): mv ~/Linux/Old/!(Tux.png) ~/Linux/New/
You can use git add [path]/\*.java to add java files from subdirectories, e.g. git add ./\*.java for current directory. From git add documentation: Adds content from all *.txt files under Documentation directory and its subdirectories: $ git add Documentation/\*.txt Note that the asterisk * is quoted from the shell in this example; this lets the … Read more
Maybe there is a better way, but how about: import glob types = (‘*.pdf’, ‘*.cpp’) # the tuple of file types files_grabbed = [] for files in types: files_grabbed.extend(glob.glob(files)) # files_grabbed is the list of pdf and cpp files Perhaps there is another way, so wait in case someone else comes up with a better … Read more
Order is arbitrary, but you can sort them yourself If you want sorted by name: sorted(glob.glob(‘*.png’)) sorted by modification time: import os sorted(glob.glob(‘*.png’), key=os.path.getmtime) sorted by size: import os sorted(glob.glob(‘*.png’), key=os.path.getsize) etc.
Bash-specific solution: compgen -G “<glob-pattern>” Escape the pattern or it’ll get pre-expanded into matches. Exit status is: 1 for no-match, 0 for ‘one or more matches’ stdout is a list of files matching the glob. I think this is the best option in terms of conciseness and minimizing potential side effects. Example: if compgen -G … Read more
os.listdir() will be slightly more efficient than using glob.glob. To test if a filename is an ordinary file (and not a directory or other entity), use os.path.isfile(): import os, os.path # simple version for working with CWD print len([name for name in os.listdir(‘.’) if os.path.isfile(name)]) # path joining version for other paths DIR = ‘/tmp’ … Read more
$files = glob(‘path/to/temp/*’); // get all file names foreach($files as $file){ // iterate files if(is_file($file)) { unlink($file); // delete file } } If you want to remove ‘hidden’ files like .htaccess, you have to use $files = glob(‘path/to/temp/{,.}*’, GLOB_BRACE);