List directory in Go

Question

I\'ve been trying to figure out how to simply list the files and folders in a single directory in Go.

I\'ve found filepath.Walk, but it goes into sub-directories aut

Answer 1

We can get a list of files inside a folder on the file system using various golang standard library functions.

1. filepath.Walk
2. ioutil.ReadDir
3. os.File.Readdir

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
    "os"
    "path/filepath"
)

func main() {
    var (
        root  string
        files []string
        err   error
    )

    root := "/home/manigandan/golang/samples"
    // filepath.Walk
    files, err = FilePathWalkDir(root)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    // ioutil.ReadDir
    files, err = IOReadDir(root)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    //os.File.Readdir
    files, err = OSReadDir(root)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    for _, file := range files {
        fmt.Println(file)
    }
}

1. Using filepath.Walk

The path/filepath package provides a handy way to scan all the files in a directory, it will automatically scan each sub-directories in the directory.

func FilePathWalkDir(root string) ([]string, error) {
    var files []string
    err := filepath.Walk(root, func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
        if !info.IsDir() {
            files = append(files, path)
        }
        return nil
    })
    return files, err
}

2. Using ioutil.ReadDir

ioutil.ReadDir reads the directory named by dirname and returns a list of directory entries sorted by filename.

func IOReadDir(root string) ([]string, error) {
    var files []string
    fileInfo, err := ioutil.ReadDir(root)
    if err != nil {
        return files, err
    }

    for _, file := range fileInfo {
        files = append(files, file.Name())
    }
    return files, nil
}

3. Using os.File.Readdir

Readdir reads the contents of the directory associated with file and returns a slice of up to n FileInfo values, as would be returned by Lstat, in directory order. Subsequent calls on the same file will yield further FileInfos.

func OSReadDir(root string) ([]string, error) {
    var files []string
    f, err := os.Open(root)
    if err != nil {
        return files, err
    }
    fileInfo, err := f.Readdir(-1)
    f.Close()
    if err != nil {
        return files, err
    }

    for _, file := range fileInfo {
        files = append(files, file.Name())
    }
    return files, nil
}

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