Recursive directory scripting

[Edward C. Jones]

William Park wrote:
> Will Stuyvesant <hwlgw at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Often I have to do something in the current directory and
>>recursively below.  Like cleaning up.  Can I use python
>>for this?  Yes I can, the scripts are below.  I tried to
>>make it portable so it would also work with linux, but I
>>gave up.  Maybe you can?
>>
>>Improvements and other comments are welcome!
> 
> 
> [snipped]

If I want to do something in my current directory tree, I do:

find . > biglist

I then write a small piece of Python code that looks like:

names = open('biglist', 'r').read().splitlines()
for name in names:
      if os.path.isfile(name):
          do_something()
      else:
          do_something_else()