Walk

Commandline utility to find files and directories by name, ext or regex. Can be used as a node module as well.

Installation

npm install -g walk-cli

Usage

walk -h
Usage: walk [options (VAL = y|n)]
  --files VAL, -f VAL      List files? Default y
  --dirs VAL, -d VAL       List directories? Default n
  --recurse VAL, -r VAL    Recurse child directories? Default y
  --symLinks VAL, -s VAL   Recurse symbolic links? Default y
  --name VAL, -n VAL       Only show files matching regex filter. e.g -name ^walk
  --ignore VAL, -i VAL     ignore files or folder matching regex filter. e.g -i '.git|node_modules'
  --ext VAL, -e VAL        Only show files matching extension. e.g -e js
  --tree, -t               Show output as indented tree?
  --help, -h               Show this help menu

Module Usage

1var walk = require('walk-cli');
2
3String.prototype.repeat = function(n) {
4  return Array(n + 1).join(this);
5};
6
7// Example Options
8var walkOpts = {
9    root: "/Users/Documents/me/code"
10    files: true,
11    dirs: true,
12    recurse: true,
13    ext: "js"
14}
15
16walk(walkOpts, function(path, name, level) {
17  if (walkOpts.tree) {
18    return console.log("  ".repeat(level), name);
19  } else {
20    return console.log(path);
21  }
22})