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Python 3 OS Module Script to Delete All Files in a Folder With Specific Extension in Terminal
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Jun 1, 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 a
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Python script which will automatically
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rename or
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delete all the files which are ending
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with a certain extension so let's
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suppose if you want to delete all the
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files which are images let's suppose
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which ends from PNG it's a very simple
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script here let me show you in Python so
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simply create a pi file here and for
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this you don't require any third party
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module you simply require the operating
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system module you simply require it at
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the very top after that you specify the
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folder path which folder you are working
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with so now let me just
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make put the folder name here so I am
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just working inside
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uh let's
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suppose I am working inside this
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folder and inside this files folder I
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create some a bunch of txt
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files so I create these two files here
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which are ending with txt if you see
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this is the first file this is the
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second file i put this some text here
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so now I'm targeting this folder here
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which is files folder and now need to
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target these txt files and only delete
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these files so what I will say is for
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file name and operating system we using
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this method list directory it will list
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all the files inside this folder folder
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path and here we'll put this if
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condition that only target those files
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which ends with so this contains this
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function here ends with and here you can
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target any extension so in this example
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we are only targeting the files which
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are ending with txt so text files so
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here after that we simply call the
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remove function so this will delete this
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file and uh we will join the full path
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here which is folder path plus the file
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name that's all and after that we can
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print out a simple statement that your
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file has been
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deleted uh that's a very simple Python
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script it will scan your directory your
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folder and then it will only target
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those files which are ending with this
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extension that you put right here in the
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code so if I try to run this Python code
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here so now just notice in the files
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directory these two files only these two
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files will be deleted
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so I delete the sorry call
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this so now that two files are
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successfully deleted guys rest of the
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files remain constant so this is very
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simple Python script by which you can
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target specific files to delete in a
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specific folder so this is actually your
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Python script uh thank you very much for
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