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Reputation: 85

delete all folders/directories with a common prefix name - python

I would like to delete all folders/directories with a common prefix name. How can this be achieved in python ?

example : all folders with names with prefix - 'reports_'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2145

Answers (1)

Guy Goldenberg
Guy Goldenberg

Reputation: 819

this is the simplest solution that I could think of to solve your problem.

import shutil
import glob
import os
base_path = ""
dir_list = glob.iglob(os.path.join(base_path, "reports_*"))
for path in dir_list:
    if os.path.isdir(path):
        shutil.rmtree(path)

Upvotes: 5

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