Looping through files in a directory

James Mills prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Wed Nov 10 19:14:42 EST 2010


On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Matty Sarro <msarro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Short story - I have a few thousand files in a directory I need to parse
> through. Is there a simple way to loop through files? I'd like to avoid
> writing a python script that can parse 1 file, and have to call it a few
> thousand times from a bash script. Any input or pointers to functions that'd
> help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

os.walk or os.listdir

cheers
James

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