Question

I am working on a search-and-destroy type program which I need it to do is search all directories with a certain file-name and append them to a list. after that delete all those files…not objects in list or the list…

    import os
file_list=[]
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path-to-dir'):
       for f_name in files:
              if f_name.startswith("file-name"):
                     file_list.append(f_name)

I could write up to appending part of the code but I don’t know next…

Some help please

Answer 1

To remove a file from your computer, use os.remove(). It takes full path to the file as it’s parameter, so instead of calling os.remove("infectedFile.dll") you would call os.remove("C:/program files/avira/infectedFile.dll")

So your file_list should contain full paths to the files, and then just call:

for file in file_list:
    os.remove(file)