How can I recursively find all files in current and subfolders based on wildcard matching?

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To recursively find all files in the current directory and its subfolders based on wildcard matching (globbing), you can use the glob module in Python. Here's an example of how to do this:

python
import glob

# Define the wildcard pattern (e.g., "*.txt" to find all .txt files)
pattern = "*.txt"

# Recursively search for files matching the pattern in the current directory and its subfolders
file_list = glob.glob(f'**/{pattern}', recursive=True)

# Print the list of matching files
for file in file_list:
    print(file)

In this example:

  1. We import the glob module, which provides a way to search for files using wildcard patterns.

  2. We define the pattern variable to specify the wildcard pattern you want to use. For example, *.txt will match all .txt files, and *.csv will match all .csv files.

  3. We use the glob.glob() function to search for files. The **/ prefix in the pattern makes it search recursively in all subdirectories.

  4. The recursive=True argument tells glob.glob() to search for files recursively in subfolders.

  5. The matching file paths are stored in the file_list variable.

  6. Finally, we loop through file_list and print the paths of the matching files.

This code will find all files in the current directory and its subfolders that match the specified wildcard pattern and print their paths. You can customize the pattern variable to match different file types or extensions.

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