
Suppose you have a repeating directory tree, e.g.:
- Folder 1
- Subdir
- Folder 2
- Subdir
- Folder 3
- Subdir
You need to find all the files in each of the sub-directories and these subdirectories happen to share the same name, Subdir. Then you could use this python function to locate them.
import os, fnmatch def locate(pattern, root=os.curdir, subdir): for path, dirs, files in os.walk(os.path.abspath(root)): for filename in fnmatch.filter(files, pattern): if subdir in path: yield os.path.join(path, filename)
This a variation of the locate function posted by Simon Brunning. See it on ActiveState.