DirA
file1.txt
file2.conf
DirB
file3.txt
file4.sh
file5.sh
DirC
file6.bat
file7.txt
In above example dir I need to perform recursive delete with glob pattern.
pattern = ['*,txt','*.sh']
Using the above pattern I need to delete all the files with *.txt and *.sh formats in all the directory
import os, glob
pattern = ['*.txt', '*.sh']
for p in pattern:
[os.remove(x) for x in glob.iglob('DirA/**/' + p, recursive=True)]
If you want you can use list comprehensions to do this task. Cya!
import os
import glob
for filename in glob.iglob('DirA/**/*.txt', recursive=True):
os.remove(filename)
for filename in glob.iglob('DirA/**/*.sh', recursive=True):
os.remove(filename)
This should work to delete all txt and sh files in the directory recursively.
Or if you want to specify an array with patterns:
import os
import glob
def removeAll(pathToDir, patterns):
for pattern in patterns:
for filename in glob.iglob(pathToDir + '/**/' + pattern, recursive=True):
os.remove(filename)
patterns = ['*.txt', '*.sh']
removeAll('DirA', patterns)
You can use os.walk instead so that you only need to traverse the directories once. With glob you would have to traverse twice since you have two patterns to look for.
import os
for root, _, files in os.walk('DirA'):
for file in files:
if any(file.endswith(ext) for ext in pattern):
os.remove(os.path.join(root, file))
endswith method; otherwise the endswith method is more efficient.
. you could also use if file.split('.')[1] in patterns. This will allow you to compare to patterns listpattern list.