How do I list all files in a subdirectory in scala?

Question

Is there a good \"scala-esque\" (I guess I mean functional) way of recursively listing files in a directory? What about matching a particular pattern?

For example re

Answer 1

As of Java 1.7 you all should be using java.nio. It offers close-to-native performance (java.io is very slow) and has some useful helpers

But Java 1.8 introduces exactly what you are looking for:

import java.nio.file.{FileSystems, Files}
import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
val dir = FileSystems.getDefault.getPath("/some/path/here") 

Files.walk(dir).iterator().asScala.filter(Files.isRegularFile(_)).foreach(println)

You also asked for file matching. Try java.nio.file.Files.find and also java.nio.file.Files.newDirectoryStream

See documentation here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/walk.html