[erlang-questions] file finders

[Joe Armstrong]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Bengt Kleberg
<bengt.kleberg@REDACTED>wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> How does the existing filelib:fold_files/5 fail your requirements?
>

Because it loops.

I have a symlink in a directory pointing to '..'

$ ls -l bugs
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 ejoearm rnd 1168 Apr 15 12:37 bug.beam
-rw-r--r-- 1 ejoearm rnd  514 Apr 15 12:36 bug.erl
-rw-r--r-- 1 ejoearm rnd  184 Apr 15 12:21 bug.erl~
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ejoearm rnd    2 Apr 15 12:20 share -> ..

I tried this

test1() ->
    filelib:fold_files("/home/ejoearm/work",
       ".*",
       true,
       fun visit/2,
       0).

visit(F, N) ->
    io:format("~p: ~p~n",[N, F]),
    N+1.

So then I run this I see:


730:
"/home/ejoearm/work/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/bug.erl~"
731:
"/home/ejoearm/work/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/bug.beam"
732:
"/home/ejoearm/work/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/rules.erl"
733:
"/home/ejoearm/work/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/bugs/share/test.erl"

I only want to follow the symlink once - not multiple times

/Joe



>
>
> bengt
>
> On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 12:17 +0200, Joe Armstrong wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > Has anybody written a decent "file finder" in Erlang. Something like
> > the unix 'find' command.
> >
> >
> > I want something that:
> >
> >
> >     - traverse the file system recursively
> >     - applies a function to any filename that matches a regexp
> >     - correctly handles symlinks
> >     - should work on all platforms
> >
> >
> > I'd like to follow symlinks, but not when they result in a circular
> > path.
> >
> >
> > I thought I had one, but it turns out not to correctly handle symlinks
> >
> >
> > /Joe
> >
> >
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