Golang : Read directory content with filepath.Walk()
Golang's filepath.Walk function allow a program to traverse a directory content and tree with ease. In this tutorial, we will see how to read a directory and display its content name with file size. This example will use the http://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#Walk function.
readdirwalk.go
package main
import (
"path/filepath"
"os"
"flag"
"fmt"
)
func walkpath(path string, f os.FileInfo, err error) error {
fmt.Printf("%s with %d bytes\n", path,f.Size())
return nil
}
func main() {
flag.Parse()
root := flag.Arg(0) // 1st argument is the directory location
filepath.Walk(root, walkpath)
}
execute go run readdirwalk.go ./
and see how it goes. You can change to different directory and test out the output as well. Hope this tutorial is helpful to you.
See also : Golang : Read directory content with os.Open
By Adam Ng
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