filesearchrecursiongo

Go find files in directory recursively


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.


Solution

  • 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)
    }