How to use glob() to find files recursively?

Question

This is what I have:

glob(os.path.join(\'src\',\'*.c\'))

but I want to search the subfolders of src. Something like this would work:

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Answer 1

For python 3.5 and later

import glob

#file_names_array = glob.glob('path/*.c', recursive=True)
#above works for files directly at path/ as guided by NeStack

#updated version
file_names_array = glob.glob('path/**/*.c', recursive=True)

further you might need

for full_path_in_src in  file_names_array:
    print (full_path_in_src ) # be like 'abc/xyz.c'
    #Full system path of this would be like => 'path till src/abc/xyz.c'

Answer 2

I modified the top answer in this posting.. and recently created this script which will loop through all files in a given directory (searchdir) and the sub-directories under it... and prints filename, rootdir, modified/creation date, and size.

Hope this helps someone... and they can walk the directory and get fileinfo.

import time
import fnmatch
import os

def fileinfo(file):
    filename = os.path.basename(file)
    rootdir = os.path.dirname(file)
    lastmod = time.ctime(os.path.getmtime(file))
    creation = time.ctime(os.path.getctime(file))
    filesize = os.path.getsize(file)

    print "%s**\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s" % (rootdir, filename, lastmod, creation, filesize)

searchdir = r'D:\Your\Directory\Root'
matches = []

for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(searchdir):
    ##  for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, '*.c'):
    for filename in filenames:
        ##      matches.append(os.path.join(root, filename))
        ##print matches
        fileinfo(os.path.join(root, filename))

Answer 3

I needed a solution for python 2.x that works fast on large directories.
I endet up with this:

import subprocess
foundfiles= subprocess.check_output("ls src/*.c src/**/*.c", shell=True)
for foundfile in foundfiles.splitlines():
    print foundfile

Note that you might need some exception handling in case ls doesn't find any matching file.

Answer 4

import sys, os, glob

dir_list = ["c:\\books\\heap"]

while len(dir_list) > 0:
    cur_dir = dir_list[0]
    del dir_list[0]
    list_of_files = glob.glob(cur_dir+'\\*')
    for book in list_of_files:
        if os.path.isfile(book):
            print(book)
        else:
            dir_list.append(book)