readdirrsync v0.0.3

readdirRSync

Synchronous, recursive readdir. Returns an array of (full) filepaths.

Example Usage

var readdirrsync = require('readdirrsync');

var dirStructure = readdirRSync(__dirname + '/testdir'); // return type: Array
/* dirStructure:
[ '/Users/jb/Developing/readdirRSync/test/testdir/file1.txt',
  '/Users/jb/Developing/readdirRSync/test/testdir/file2.txt',
  '/Users/jb/Developing/readdirRSync/test/testdir/file3.txt',
  '/Users/jb/Developing/readdirRSync/test/testdir/subdir/file4.txt' ]
*/

Why Synchronous and Recursive

This module is handy, if you want to walk through the structure on a 'save' path. If it would be asynchronous the sorting of the structure could vary from time to time. Example use case: Generating hashes, there you will always want to put fileX before fileY because otherwise the hash would change!

var readdirrsync = require('readdirrsync');
var crypto       = require('crypto');
var hash         = crypto.createHash('md5');
var files        = readdirrsync(dirname);

for (var i in files) {
  hash.update(fs.readFileSync(files[i]));
}

console.log(hash.digest('hex'));

License

MIT