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

And here's a mixture of the stream solution from @DuncanMcGregor with the filter from @Rick-777:

  def tree( root: File, descendCheck: File => Boolean = { _ => true } ): Stream[File] = {
    require(root != null)
    def directoryEntries(f: File) = for {
      direntries <- Option(f.list).toStream
      d <- direntries
    } yield new File(f, d)
    val shouldDescend = root.isDirectory && descendCheck(root)
    ( root.exists, shouldDescend ) match {
      case ( false, _) => Stream.Empty
      case ( true, true ) => root #:: ( directoryEntries(root) flatMap { tree( _, descendCheck ) } )
      case ( true, false) => Stream( root )
    }   
  }

  def treeIgnoringHiddenFilesAndDirectories( root: File ) = tree( root, { !_.isHidden } ) filter { !_.isHidden }

This gives you a Stream[File] instead of a (potentially huge and very slow) List[File] while letting you decide which sorts of directories to recurse into with the descendCheck() function.