Question

Folks,
Might find this on searching, but need this rather quickly done:

I have the path like this: /mnt/path1/path2/path3/

I need to chown all the directories such as /mnt, /mnt/path1, /mnt/path1/path2, /mnt/path1/path2/path3, how to get this done in python?

I cannot do ‘chown -R /mnt/’ since it tries to chown all the files/directories that exist beneath path3, but I wish to chown only upto path3 here for example.

Thank you for any suggestions!

Answer 1

You could do something like this:

>>> import os
>>> path = "abc/def/ghi"
>>> a = path.split("/")
>>> [os.path.join(*a[:i]) for i in range(1, len(a)+1)]
['abc', 'abc/def', 'abc/def/ghi']