Question

I am trying to have my script be able to take in an arbitrary number of file names as command line arguments. In Unix, it is possible to use the ‘*’ key to represent any character. For example,

ls blah*.txt 

will list every file with blah at the beginning and txt at the end.

I need something like this for my python script.

python myscript.py blah*.txt

Is this possible? and if it is, how can it be done?

Answer 1

Thats why you have sys.argv (and dont forget to import sys) It will return all your blah*.txt as a list of filenames