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walkdir
Find files. Walks a directory tree emitting events based on what it finds. Presents a familliar callback/emitter/sync interface. Walk a tree of any depth. This is a performant option any pull requests to make it more so will be taken into consderation..
Example
var walk = require('walkdir');
//async with path callback
walk('../',function(path,stat){
console.log('found: ',path);
});
//use async emitter to capture more events
var emitter = walk('../');
emitter.on('file',function(filename,stat){
console.log('file from emitter: ', filename);
});
//sync with callback
walk.sync('../',function(path,stat){
console.log('found sync:',path);
});
//sync just need paths
var paths = walk.sync('../');
console.log('found paths sync: ',paths);
install
npm install walkdir
arguments
walkdir(path, [options], [callback]) walkdir.sync(path, [options], [callback]);
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path
- the starting point of your directory walk
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options. supported options are
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general
{ "follow_symlinks":false, // default is off "no_recurse":false, // only recurse one level deep "max_depth":undefined // only recurse down to max_depth. if you need more than no_recurse }
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sync only
{ "return_object":false, // if true the sync return will be in {path:stat} format instead of [path,path,...] "no_return":false, // if true null will be returned and no array or object will be created with found paths. useful for large listings }
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callback
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this is bound to the path event of the emitter. its optional in all cases.
callback(path,stat)
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events
non error type events are emitted with (path,stat). stat is an instanceof fs.Stats
###path fired for everything
###file fired only for regular files
###directory fired only for directories
###link fired when a symbolic link is found
###end fired when the entire tree has been read and emitted.
###socket fired when a socket descriptor is found
###fifo fired when a fifo is found
###characterdevice fired when a character device is found
###blockdevice fired when a block device is found
###targetdirectory fired for the stat of the path you provided as the first argument. is is only fired if it is a directory.
###empty fired for empty directory
error events
error type events are emitted with (path,error). error being the error object returned from an fs call or other opperation.
###error if the target path cannot be read an error event is emitted. this is the only failure case.
###fail when stat or read fails on a path somewhere in the walk and it is not your target path you get a fail event instead of error. This is handy if you want to find places you dont have access too.
notes
the async emitter returned supports 3 methods
###end stop a walk in progress
###pause pause the walk. no more events will be emitted until resume
###resume resume the walk
ignore(path or array of paths)
will not traverse these directories. may be called in the path event handler to ignore dynamically.
var walk = require('walkdir');
var p = require('path');
walk('/',function(path,stat){
// ignore all .git directories.
if(p.basename(path) === '.git') {
this.ignore(path)
}
})
cancel a walk in progress
//cancel a walk in progress within callback.
var walk = require('walkdir');
walk('../',function(path,stat){
this.end();
});
//cancel a walk in progress with emitter handle
var walk = require('walkdir');
var emitter = walk('../');
doSomethingAsync(function(){
emitter.end();
})
thanks
thanks to substack. the interface for this module is based off of node-findit
contributing
see CONTRIBUTING.md
for guidelines. this is an open opensource project.