#!/usr/bin/env python import glob, os, io src = '/lustre/athorpe/ch4/ORNL_Nature_CH4/Renamed/' dst = '/lustre/athorpe/ch4/ORNL_Nature_CH4/Renamed/' os.chdir(src) for file in glob.glob("*.hdr"): #Remove last few lines of header readFile = open(file) lines = readFile.readlines() #Select only the relevant lines lines_sel=lines[0:13] #print('lines_sel:',lines_sel) #lines_sel_str=str(lines_sel) #print('lines_sel_str:',lines_sel_str) readFile.close() w = open(file,'w') print('w:',w) w.writelines([item for item in lines_sel[:]]) w.close()