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Useful for removing macOS specific files.
import os
from fnmatch import fnmatch
# pretty useless if youre using git.
root = "./"
search = ["._*", ".DS_Store", ".AppleDouble", ".LSOverride"]
for (path, dirs, files) in os.walk(root):
for name in files:
for exp in search:
if fnmatch(name, exp):
file = os.path.normcase(os.path.join(path, name))
print (file)
os.remove(file)
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