I want to find all files matching a specific pattern in a directory recursively (including subdirectories). I wrote the code to do this:
libRegEx, e := regexp.Compile("^.+\\.(dylib)$")
if e != nil {
log.Fatal(e)
}
files, err := ioutil.ReadDir("/usr/lib")
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
for _, f := range files {
if libRegEx.MatchString(f.Name()) {
println(f.Name())
}
}
Unfortunately, it only searches in /usr/bin
, but I also want to search for matches in its subdirectories. How can I achieve this? Thanks.
The standard library's filepath
package includes Walk
for exactly this purpose: "Walk walks the file tree rooted at root, calling walkFn for each file or directory in the tree, including root." For example:
libRegEx, e := regexp.Compile("^.+\\.(dylib)$")
if e != nil {
log.Fatal(e)
}
e = filepath.Walk("/usr/lib", func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
if err == nil && libRegEx.MatchString(info.Name()) {
println(info.Name())
}
return nil
})
if e != nil {
log.Fatal(e)
}