The other answers are correct, in that chmod -R 755 will set these permissions to all files and subfolders in the tree. But why on earth would you want to? It might make sense for the directories, but why set the execute bit on all the files? I suspect what you really want to do … Read more
To get the full path to the directory a Python file is contained in, write this in that file: import os dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) (Note that the incantation above won’t work if you’ve already used os.chdir() to change your current working directory, since the value of the __file__ constant is relative to the current working … Read more
os.remove() removes a file. os.rmdir() removes an empty directory. shutil.rmtree() deletes a directory and all its contents. Path objects from the Python 3.4+ pathlib module also expose these instance methods: pathlib.Path.unlink() removes a file or symbolic link. pathlib.Path.rmdir() removes an empty directory.
os.listdir() returns everything inside a directory — including both files and directories. os.path‘s isfile() can be used to only list files: from os import listdir from os.path import isfile, join onlyfiles = [f for f in listdir(mypath) if isfile(join(mypath, f))] Alternatively, os.walk() yields two lists for each directory it visits — one for files and … Read more
How can I add a blank directory to a Git repository?
On Python ≥ 3.5, use pathlib.Path.mkdir: from pathlib import Path Path(“/my/directory”).mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) For older versions of Python, I see two answers with good qualities, each with a small flaw, so I will give my take on it: Try os.path.exists, and consider os.makedirs for the creation. import os if not os.path.exists(directory): os.makedirs(directory) As noted in comments … Read more
How can I get the source directory of a Bash script from within the script itself?
How do I find all files containing specific text on Linux?
A file can have whatever extension it wants. It can be any sequence of characters of any length. Since that sequence is infinite, there is no way to put them all in a list. If you want to know if the directory you’re interested in has any files with a given extension, you can enumerate … Read more
use File::Find::Rule; my @array = File::Find::Rule->directory->in(‘/home’); File::Find::Rule