How to touch all the files recursively using Python?

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To touch all the  files recursively, you need to walk the directory tree using os.walk and add touch all the files in it using os.utime(path_to_file). 

example

import os
# Recursively walk the tree
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    for file in files:
        # Set utime to current time
        os.utime(os.path.join(root, file))

In Python 3.4+, you can directly use the pathlib module to touch files. 

 example

from pathlib import Path
import os
# Recursively walk the tree
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
    for file in files:
        Path(os.path.join(root, file)).touch()
raja
Rajendra Dharmkar
Published on 27-Dec-2017 10:46:26
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