Converting all files in folder to .py files

Question

I was wondering if their is anyway to go through and make copies of each .ipynb file in a folder and then change that file to .py. I want to keep the .ipynb files but I would like to have a .py file as well. I know how to do it manually but would like a way to do it automatically for each file in a specified directory.

Answer 1

Just try this at Cmd prompt inside that folder.

jupyter nbconvert *.ipynb --to script

Converts all .ipynb files to .py and retains all .ipynb files as well.
Hope it helps

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Answer 2

find . -name "*.py" -exec ipython nbconvert --to=python {} \; should work on Linux.