search entire drive say c:

[prakash jp]

Thank u Tim Case,

all,

Also how to run the standalone generated from script taking unc path names
to account

regards
Prakash

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com>wrote:

>  can any of u help to search a file say "abc.txt" in entire c drive
>> (windows)
>> and print the path/s stating such a files presence.
>>
>
> Well, you can just do it from DOS:
>
>  c:\> dir /s/b/a abc.txt
>
> Just use os.walk() and check the list of files returned at each
> directory-level iteration.
>
>  ROOT = "c:\\"
>  fname = "abc.txt".lower()
>  for p, d, f in os.walk(ROOT):
>    for fn in f:
>      if fn.lower() == fname:
>        print os.path.join(p, f)
>        # break
>
> You might also investigate using os.path.normcase() instead of .lower()
>
> -tkc
>
>
>
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