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Revision: 6069
at April 24, 2008 13:20 by maphew
Initial Code 
# Code courtesy of "pepr"
# http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Python/Q_23347326.html
import csv
import glob
import os
import sys
import time
 
def dirlister(dir_mask):
    '''Generator that returns full names of the searched files.'''    
    
    # Split the path with mask into path and mask.
    root, mask = os.path.split(dir_mask)
    
    # Traverse the directories from the root. Use globbing
    # inside of each dirpath below. Ignore the dirnames
    # and filenames lists.
    for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(root):
        fmask = os.path.join(dirpath, mask)
        lst = glob.glob(fmask)
    
        # Traverse the list of results of the glob().
        # Yield the filenames only. 
        for fname in lst:
            if os.path.isfile(fname):
                yield fname
 
 
def getFileInfo(fname):
    '''Get the file info and return the tuple of formated values.'''
    assert os.path.isfile(fname)
    return ( time.strftime('%d/%m/%Y', time.localtime(os.path.getmtime(fname))), 
             str(os.path.getsize(fname)),
             os.path.split(fname)[1],
             os.path.split(fname)[0]
           )
 
 
if __name__=='__main__':
 
    # Get the arguments.
    assert len(sys.argv)==3
    outfname = sys.argv[1]
    dir_mask = sys.argv[2]
 
    # Open the output file and configure the csv writer.
    fout = open(outfname, 'wb')
    writer = csv.writer(fout, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
    writer.writerow(["DATE","BYTES","FILENAME","PATH"])
    
    # Search for all the wanted files and write the info for each.
    for fname in dirlister(dir_mask):
        writer.writerow(getFileInfo(fname))
    
    # Do not forget to close the output file.    
    fout.close()
Initial URL 
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Python/Q_23347326.html
Initial Description 
I needed a small python program or code snippet to recursively search a directory tree for the specified  file pattern and save the results to CSV
Initial Title 
capture directory listing to CSV
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