How can I recursively find the directories containing a file of a certain type?

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I have a set of .bam, files scattered inside a tree of folders. Not every directory contains such a file. I know how to recursively get the path of the files themselves using glob, but not the directory containing them.

import glob2 bam_files = glob2.glob('/data2/**/*.bam') print bam_files

The above code gives the .bam files, but I want just the folders. Wondering if there is a direct way to do this using glob without regular expressions.

You could just loop over your search results and use os.path.dirname() to get the parent directories. — antred
– antred, Commented May 31, 2016 at 18:06

user391339 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-31 18:48:23Z

Use a set and os.path.dirname() [https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html#os.path.dirname]:

import glob2 import os bam_dirs = {os.path.dirname(p) for p in glob2.glob('/data2/**/*.bam')} print bam_dirs

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