the input would be something like this
"
/usr/bin/blah
/sbin/blah
/usr/share/man/man1/blah
"
for line in lines:
if os.path.islink(line.rstrip()):
main.write("ln -sf "+os.path.realpath(line.rstrip())+" "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
remove.write("rm "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
else:
localdest=line.rstrip().split("/")[len(line.rstrip().split("/"))-1]+str(counter)
folders = line.rstrip().split("/")
folder = ""
for fol in folders[:-1)]:
folder = folder+fol+"/"
dirs.append(folder)
#main.write("if [ ! -d "+folder+" ] ; then mkdir -p "+folder+" ; fi\n")
shutil.copyfile(line.strip(), localdest)
shutil.copymode(line.strip(), localdest)
main.write("cp -p "+localdest+" "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
remove.write("rm "+line.rstrip()+"\n")
counter+=1
print(dirs)
and the way i want dirs to look is
['/usr/bin','/sbin','/usr/share/man/man1']
but currently, with the way i am doing it
it is coming out like
['/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']
['/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/', '/sbin/']