Listing files in a directory in Clojure

Question

How can I create a list out of all of the files in a specific directory in Clojure? Do I have to resort to calling Java or can Clojure handle this natively?

Answer 1

Also check out the fs library.

It may not be worth pulling in the extra dependency if you just need a list of files in a directory, but there are many useful utility functions there, for example for:

• Creating directory structures
• Copying, deleting, moving
• Checking and changing permissions
• Splitting and normalizing paths
• Creating temporary files and directories
• Globbing
• Working with zip and tar files