Recursively set all files and folders to 777 from this list

Question

I've tried endlessly searching for a solution to this, but couldn't seem to find out.

I have a list of paths:

dirToModify = ['includes/','misc/','modules/','scripts/','themes/']

I want to loop through each list-item (a dir in this case) and set all files and dirs to 777

I've done this for files like:

for file in fileToModify:
    os.chmod(file, 0o777)

But can't seem to figure out a good way to do this recursively to folders.

Can anyone help?

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 22 '18 at 08:03

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You can iterate through the directories you'd like to modify, then use os.walk to iterate over all of the directories and files in each of these directories, like so:

for your_dir in dirs_to_modify:
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(your_dir):
        for d in dirs:
            os.chmod(os.path.join(root, d), 0o777)
        for f in files:
            os.chmod(os.path.join(root, f), 0o777)

edited Jun 22 '18 at 08:03

Thomas Ahle

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answered Nov 17 '14 at 19:31

furkle

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this won't work as you are not joining the paths – Padraic Cunningham Nov 17 '14 at 19:38
@PadraicCunningham Ah, you're right - editing now. – furkle Nov 17 '14 at 19:39
Is it possible to do: os.remove(d) too? – CodeTalk Nov 17 '14 at 19:48
@CodeTalk To remove a directory? You'd probably want to use shutil.rmtree: https://docs.python.org/2/library/shutil.html#shutil.rmtree – furkle Nov 17 '14 at 19:50

Recursively set all files and folders to 777 from this list

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