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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Automation Cookbook Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Tasks Made Easy 3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application 4. Searching and Reading Local Files 5. Generating Fantastic Reports 6. Fun with Spreadsheets 7. Developing Stunning Graphs 8. Dealing with Communication Channels 9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign? 10. Debugging Techniques 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Crawling and searching directories

In this recipe, we'll learn how to recursively scan a directory to get all the files contained there. The files can be of a particular kind, or just all of them.

Getting ready

Let's start by creating a test directory with some file information:

$ mkdir dir
$ touch dir/file1.txt
$ touch dir/file2.txt
$ mkdir dir/subdir
$ touch dir/subdir/file3.txt
$ touch dir/subdir/file4.txt
$ touch dir/subdir/file5.pdf
$ touch dir/file6.pdf

All the files will be empty; we will use them in this recipe only to discover them. Notice there are four files that have a .txt extension, and two that have a .pdf extension.

The files are also available in the GitHub repository here: https://github.com/PacktPublishing...
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