How to list all folders and files recursively?

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How can I get folders and files including files/folders of subdirectories in python? I need the absolute path of each file/folder.

I want to rename all folders and files. So I have to rename the folders first.

folder
-- file
-- folder1
---- folder1.1
------ file
------ folder1.1.1
-------- file
-- folder2
---- ...

Take a look [here][1] it was already answered before [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5817209/browse-files-and-subfolders-in-python — , Dec 14 '13 at 01:58

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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I took a quick look around and found out its pretty easy. From Sven Marnach:

You can us os.walk() to recursively iterate through a directory and all its subdirectories:
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    for name in files:
        if name.endswith((".html", ".htm")):
            # whatever
To build a list of these names, you can use a list comprehension:
htmlfiles = [os.path.join(root, name)
             for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path)
             for name in files
             if name.endswith((".html", ".htm"))]

edited May 23 '17 at 12:17

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answered Dec 14 '13 at 02:01

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@Lucas What OS are you running? – Idris Dec 14 '13 at 02:39
Windows 8. Target will be CentOS 6.5 that scans a NFS share on a Windows Server. Paths will be like /mnt/nfs/share/foo/bar/foo/bar – Lucas Dec 14 '13 at 02:52
@Lucas Can't you go into it manually and select the folders then rename them by right clicking? – Idris Dec 14 '13 at 03:06
I could but there will be spawn every day MANY folders that have to be renamed. – Lucas Dec 14 '13 at 03:11
@Lucas If theres a bunch just hold SHIFT and go from top to bottom. It'll do all of them so you can rename with one click – Idris Dec 14 '13 at 03:13

How to list all folders and files recursively?

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