filefind is a Lua module providing both highly efficient directory iteration and an expressive syntax for recursively globbing sets of files or directories from the disk in a single execution. The globbing functionality was inspired by Perforce's recursive wildcard syntax and implements JPSoft's TCC syntax for stepping up directories.
require 'filefind'
for entry in filefind.glob('**') do
print(entry.filename)
end
This is a reference of all of the filefind module's methods.
entryTable = filefind.attributes(filename)
Retrieves file or directory properties for one item.
for entry in filefind.glob(pattern) do
Begins a new iteration of files and/or directories using pattern as the glob wildcard. All glob syntax, described elsewhere, is available.
for entry in filefind.match(pattern) do
Begins a new iteration of files and directories using pattern as the wildcard. Simple access to the file system is used. The more powerful file globbing facilities are not available.
lowTime, highTime = filefind.unix_time_to_FILETIME_UTC(unixTime)
Converts a Unix time_t to a Windows FILETIME adjusted to UTC. Returns the FILETIME as a two integers representing low time and high time.
entryTable = filefind.unix_time_to_FILETIME_UTC(unixTime)
Converts a Unix time_t to a Windows FILETIME adjusted to UTC. Returns the FILETIME as a two integers representing low time and high time.
entryTable = filefind.FILETIME_to_unix_time_UTC(filetime)
Converts a Windows FILETIME to Unix time_t adjusted to UTC. filetime may be two integers representing the low time and high time of the FILETIME structure or a string representing the low time and high time combined.
Returns the time_t.
entryTable = filefind.time_t_to_FILETIME(time_t)
Converts a Unix time_t to a Windows FILETIME. Returns the FILETIME as a two integers representing low time and high time.
entryTable = filefind.FILETIME_to_time_t(filetime)
Converts a Windows FILETIME to Unix time_t. filetime may be two integers representing the low time and high time of the FILETIME structure or a string representing the low time and high time combined.
Returns the time_t.
entry.table - table - Returns a table with all of the properties below. Entry properties are usually looked up and returned on demand. Some may take extra time to compute.
entry.filename - string - The relative path from the filefind.match() starting directory.
entry.creation_time - number - The creation time of the file/directory in seconds starting from midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970.
entry.access_time - number - The last access time of the file/directory in seconds starting from midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970.
entry.write_time - number - The last write time of the file/directory in seconds starting from midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970.
entry.creation_FILETIME - table - The creation time of the file/directory in FILETIME format starting from midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970. Element 1 of the table is the low file time. Element 2 is the high file time.
entry.access_FILETIME - table - The last access time of the file/directory in FILETIME format starting from midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970. Element 1 of the table is the low file time. Element 2 is the high file time.
entry.write_FILETIME - table - The last write time of the file/directory in FILETIME format starting from midnight (00:00:00), January 1, 1970. Element 1 of the table is the low file time. Element 2 is the high file time.
entry.is_directory - boolean - true if the glob entry is a directory, false otherwise.
entry.is_link - boolean - true if the entry is a hard or symbolic link, false otherwise.
entry.is_readonly - boolean - true if the glob entry is read only, false otherwise.
entry.number_of_links - number - The number of files pointing to the hardlink blob, 0 if none.
entry.size - number - The size of the file.