I have a small .exe file that I'd like to run on all files in a given directory. It is launched as follows "./myprogram.exe file" and converts my files into a different data type.
Now I want to build a python script, that runs this exe on all files in a given directory, including all subdirectories. I am totally new to python, so I have no clue how to do this.
Does anyone have suggestions how to do this? Do I need python or any other script language in the first place?
Thanks a lot!
On a linux box, I would have told you to use a find call, but the .exe seems to tell you are on windows.
In python, you should use something like this
for root, dir, files in os.walk(path):
for name in files:
subprocess.call(["path_to_your_programm/myprogram.exe", os.path.join(root, name)]
For a match of all files from a directory + sub directories, take a look at: Use a Glob() to find files recursively in Python?
To call your program, take a look at : How do I execute a program from python? os.system fails due to spaces in path
You should be able to modify the example in the python docs for os.walk to do that.
To actually call your external program, you can use subprocess.call.
