# node-walk-sync

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Return an array containing all recursive files and directories under a given
directory, similar to Unix `find`. Follows symlinks. Bare-bones, but
very fast.

Similar to [`wrench.readdirSyncRecursive`](https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/wrench-js#synchronous-operations),
but adds trailing slashes to directories.

Not to be confused with [node-walk](https://github.com/coolaj86/node-walk),
which has both an asynchronous and a synchronous API.

## Installation

```bash
npm install --save walk-sync
```

## Usage

```js
var walkSync = require('walk-sync');
var paths = walkSync('project')
```

Given `project/one.txt` and `project/subdir/two.txt`, `paths` will be the following
array:

```js
['one.txt', 'subdir/', 'subdir/two.txt']
```

Directories come before their contents, and have a trailing forward-slash (on
all platforms).

Symlinks are followed.

### Entries

Sometimes, it is important to get additional information from a walk of a
directory; for instance if the downstream consumer needs to stat the files we
can leverage the stats from the walk.

To accommodate, `walkSync.entries(path [, options])` is also provided, instead
of returning a list of files and/or directories it returns an array of objects
which correspond to a given file or directory, except with more data.

```
entry.relativePath
entry.mode  // => fs.statSync(fullPath).mode
entry.size  // => fs.statSync(fullPath).size
entry.mtime // => fs.statSync(fullPath).mtime.getTime()

entry.isDirectory() // => true if directory
```

### Options

* `globs`: An array of globs. Only files and directories that match at least
  one of the provided globs will be returned.

    ```js
    var paths = walkSync('project', { globs: ['subdir/**/*.txt'] });
    // => ['subdir/two.txt']
    ```

    As an alternative to string globs, you can pass an array of precompiled
    [`minimatch.Minimatch`](https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch#minimatch-class)
    instances. This is faster and allows to specify your own globbing options.

* `directories` (default: true): Pass `false` to only return files, not
  directories:

    ```js
    var paths = walkSync('project', { directories: false })
    // => ['one.txt', 'subdir/two.txt']
    ```

* `ignore`: An array of globs. Files and directories that match at least one
  of the provided globs will be pruned while searching.

    ```js
    var paths = walkSync('project', { ignore: ['subdir'] })
    // => ['one.txt']
    ```

## Background

`walkSync(baseDir)` is a faster substitute for

```js
glob.sync('**', {
  cwd: baseDir,
  dot: true,
  mark: true,
  strict: true
})
```