recursively removing files and directories

[Eli Criffield]

On Apr 9, 1:44 pm, "bahoo" <b83503... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found a message on Jan 16, 2006 regarding the same topic, except
> that I wanted to remove only certain files that satisfy the format
> "ABC_XXX_XXX.dat", but not the other files.  Once the files are
> removed, if a folder becomes empty, I want to remove the folder as
> well.
>
> The solution to the Jan 16 2006 message required many lines of python
> code.  I was wondering if there is a simpler solution to my problem at
> hand, perhaps by using more specialized functions?
>
> Thanks!
> bahoo

Something like

import os
import re

def processFiles(args,dir,fileList):
    for thisFile in fileList:
       if re.match(r'REGEXPATTERN',thisFile):
            os.unlink("%s%s"dir,thisFile)

os.path.walk("/",processFiles,None)

But thats just off the top of my head, so that mite not be exact.

Eli Criffield