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Python 3 Glob Module Script to List All Files of a Specific Extension in a Folder Using Glob Pattern
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you how to
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get the list of a specific amount of
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files belonging to a specific
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extension using the globe module inside
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Python so it will list out all the files
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of a specific extension in a folder
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using a glob
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pattern so this is actually a very
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simple script here that we are only
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requesting a specific extension let me
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replace here dot PDF so it will search
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the entire directory right here and it
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will only return the files which are
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ending with PDF so if I run the script
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here so right here if I run this let me
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just delete this
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so just write here python.app
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py so sorry the extens script name is
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python app dot 20 py so it will fetch
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all the files which are ending with pdf
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here if you see it has searched all this
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directory and it has splitted all the
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pdf files this is the one pdf file this
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is the
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second so here it basically find out
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only the PDF files so here you can
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replace it let's suppose I only want the
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CSV file so this glob pattern this glob
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module will only request this CSV file
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so it only generated basically find out
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this single file
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so this is the glob module which is very
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useful in finding or filtering out files
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belonging to a specific extension
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so it I think it comes within the Python
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default installation so you can import
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this by using this module
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glob or I
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think you need to install it as well
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just search
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it yeah so it comes within the default
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installation and then you specify
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whatever
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path the extension of files you want to
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this is a very basic pattern here we are
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only requesting files ending with PDF so
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there are also more advanced patterns as
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well of
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globe so here we simply print
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out like this
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or a single line we print out all the
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files we use this
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function and then we loop through each
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file you belonging to this glob pattern
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by using this
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function we get the
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path make the recursive to be
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true and we simply print out the file so
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this is the overall
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script you will see that
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so so this property here recursive to
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true it it tells it to actually find
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out let's suppose if you have a
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directory right
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here inside this
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directory there is another PDF file
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which is present
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so if I copy this
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file copy this PDF file and paste it
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right here but then also this recursive
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property to true will make sure that it
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will search this PDF file as well so you
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would see that it will also search this
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file as well
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so this is actually the blog module
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where you can actually find out files
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belonging to a specific extension so
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thank you very much for watching this
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