I'm trying to get all the executables within a folder containing a bunch of libraries using a python script. To do so I set up the following:
for libs in os.listdir(parent_dir):
path = parent_dir + libs + "/"
for root,dirs,files in os.walk(path):
for file in files:
if os.access(file,os.X_OK):
#task to be done
print(file) #for debugging
However, it didn't work. I checked the permissions of the executable files manually and while the file type is set to "exeutable", permissions are "read and write", and I can't figure out how to fix this. Changing the permission of the target file is also not an option since there's a lot of files, and the number of files is also variable depending on how many libraries I'm working with. I am also using Ubuntu Linux if that helps.
It's returning False because it isn't finding the files. Either change to the directory of each individual file or use absolute paths.
for libs in os.listdir(parent_dir):
path = parent_dir + libs + "/"
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
for file in files:
file = os.path.join(root, file) # get absolute path
if os.access(file, os.X_OK):
print(file)
As noted in the comments, it is better to use absolute paths than doing the following. But it should work as well.
for libs in os.listdir(parent_dir):
path = parent_dir + libs + "/"
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
os.chdir(root) # change to directory of files
for file in files:
if os.access(file, os.X_OK):
print(os.path.join(root, file)) # note that you still should use an absolute path for accuracy