Locate

Question

Write a program to locate a given file in the file system.

Solution

import fnmatch
import os

def locate(pattern, root=os.getcwd()):
    for path, dirs, files in os.walk(root):
        for filename in [os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path, filename)) for filename in files if fnmatch.fnmatch(filename, pattern)]:
            yield filename

Explanation

See also

• Suggest a Code Improvement:algorithm_locate.py

• Suggest a better explanation for algorithm_locate.rst

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