Using Python to execute a command on every file in a folder

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To find all the filenames use os.listdir().

Then you loop over the filenames. Like so:

import os
for filename in os.listdir('dirname'):
     callthecommandhere(blablahbla, filename, foo)

If you prefer subprocess, use subprocess. 🙂

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