findit
Recursively walk directory trees. Think /usr/bin/find
.
Why the fork?
There is a pull request to merge this project back into findit.The pull request fixes every open issue in findit, and it completely rewrites the code from the ground up.
It also adds an additional feature regarding symlinks.
I would love for substack to merge the pull request, but realistically it might not happen, and this code is objectively cleaner, more robust, and fixes several critical issues.
I recommend depending on this module rather than the original findit. If the pull request is merged, however, I will add a deprecation notice to this module and happily hand the maintainer hat back to substack.
example
var finder = require('findit2')(process.argv[2] || '.');
var path = require('path');
finder.on('directory', function (dir, stat, stop, linkPath) {
var base = path.basename(dir);
if (base === '.git' || base === 'node_modules') stop()
else console.log(dir + '/')
});
finder.on('file', function (file, stat, linkPath) {
console.log(file);
});
finder.on('link', function (link, stat) {
console.log(link);
});
methods
var findit = require('findit2')
var finder = findit(basedir, opts)
Return an event emitterfinder
that performs a recursive walk starting at
basedir
.If you set
opts.followSymlinks
, symlinks will be followed. Otherwise, a
'link'
event will fire but symlinked directories will not be walked.If
basedir
is actually a non-directory regular file, findit emits a single
"file" event for it then emits "end".You can optionally specify a custom fs implementation with
opts.fs
. opts.fs
should implement:opts.fs.readdir(dir, cb)
opts.fs.lstat(dir, cb)
opts.fs.readlink(dir, cb)
- optional if your stat objects from
opts.fs.lstat
never return true for stat.isSymbolicLink()
finder.stop()
Stop the traversal. A"stop"
event will fire and then no more events will
fire.events
finder.on('path', function (file, stat, linkPath) {})
For each file, directory, and symlinkfile
, this event fires.If
followSymlinks
is true
, then linkPath
will be defined when file
was found via a symlink. In this situation, linkPath
is the path including
the symlink; file
is the resolved actual location on disk.finder.on('file', function (file, stat, linkPath) {})
For each file, this event fires.finder.on('directory', function (dir, stat, stop, linkPath) {})
For each directory, this event fires with the pathdir
.Your callback may call
stop()
on the first tick to tell findit to stop walking
the current directory.finder.on('link', function (file, stat) {})
For each symlink, this event fires.finder.on('readlink', function (src, dst) {})
Every time a symlink is read whenopts.followSymlinks
is on, this event fires.finder.on('end', function () {})
When the recursive walk is complete unlessfinder.stop()
was called, this
event fires.finder.on('stop', function () {})
Whenfinder.stop()
is called, this event fires.finder.on('error', function (err) {})
Whenever there is an error, this event fires. You can choose to ignore errors or stop the traversal usingfinder.stop()
.You can always get the source of the error by checking
err.path
.install
With npm do:npm install findit2