How To Search For Files Recursively In Python

The aim of this page📝 is to share how I am getting all files that contain migration and that are spread across multiple subdirectories of a particular repository.

1. NOTES

• use glob module from the standard library
• use glob method of the module
• use ** for any char in multiple folders
• use * for any char in a single folder
• pass recursive=True as a second argument
• return the match

import glob
def get_migration_files():
    files = glob.glob("./**/migration*.py", recursive=True)
    return files

2. LINKS

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18394147/how-to-do-a-recursive-sub-folder-search-and-return-files-in-a-list
• 2020–07–14-ignore-files-in-gitignore-using-globbing-patterns.md