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# recursive-readdir
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A simple Node module for recursively listing all files in a directory,
or in any subdirectories.
It does not list directories themselves.
Because it uses fs.readdir, which calls [readdir](http://linux.die.net/man/3/readdir) under the hood
on OS X and Linux, the order of files inside directories is [not guaranteed](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8977441/does-readdir-guarantee-an-order).
## Installation
npm install recursive-readdir
## Usage
```javascript
var recursive = require('recursive-readdir');
recursive('some/path', function (err, files) {
// Files is an array of filename
console.log(files);
});
```
It can also take a list of files to ignore.
```javascript
var recursive = require('recursive-readdir');
// ignore files named 'foo.cs' or files that end in '.html'.
recursive('some/path', ['foo.cs', '*.html'], function (err, files) {
// Files is an array of filename
console.log(files);
});
```
You can also pass functions which are called to determine whether or not to
ignore a file:
```javascript
var recursive = require('recursive-readdir');
function ignoreFunc(file, stats) {
// `file` is the absolute path to the file, and `stats` is an `fs.Stats`
// object returned from `fs.lstat()`.
return stats.isDirectory() && path.basename(file) == "test";
}
// Ignore files named 'foo.cs' and descendants of directories named test
recursive('some/path', ['foo.cs', ignoreFunc], function (err, files) {
// Files is an array of filename
console.log(files);
});
```
The ignore strings support Glob syntax via
[minimatch](https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch).