I have trouble with my Python script. Currently, my script works to run the script which is file and myscript.py in the same folder. I want to run myscript.py to extract files in another folder.
myscript.py
import os
import re
# Setup main paths.
myfiles = os.listdir()
pattern = re.compile(r"filesextract\d+")
for files in myfiles:
if(pattern.match(files) != None):
command = "tar -xzvf " + files
os.system(command)
make the script accept input and output directory (extraction) as arguments (or envs), or find a better approach to set these depending on your scenario, so that you can run the script from any location.
if len(sys.argv) < 3:
print("Usage: python myscript.py <input_directory> <output_directory>")
sys.exit(1)
# Get the input and output directories from the arguments
input_directory = sys.argv[1]
output_directory = sys.argv[2]