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139 lines
3.9 KiB
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walkdir
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A cross platform Rust library for efficiently walking a directory recursively.
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Comes with support for following symbolic links, controlling the number of
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open file descriptors and efficient mechanisms for pruning the entries in the
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directory tree.
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[![Build status](https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir/workflows/ci/badge.svg)](https://github.com/BurntSushi/walkdir/actions)
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[![](http://meritbadge.herokuapp.com/walkdir)](https://crates.io/crates/walkdir)
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Dual-licensed under MIT or the [UNLICENSE](http://unlicense.org).
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### Documentation
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[docs.rs/walkdir](https://docs.rs/walkdir/)
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### Usage
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To use this crate, add `walkdir` as a dependency to your project's
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`Cargo.toml`:
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```toml
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[dependencies]
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walkdir = "2"
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```
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### Example
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The following code recursively iterates over the directory given and prints
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the path for each entry:
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```rust,no_run
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use walkdir::WalkDir;
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for entry in WalkDir::new("foo") {
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let entry = entry.unwrap();
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println!("{}", entry.path().display());
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}
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```
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Or, if you'd like to iterate over all entries and ignore any errors that may
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arise, use `filter_map`. (e.g., This code below will silently skip directories
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that the owner of the running process does not have permission to access.)
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```rust,no_run
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use walkdir::WalkDir;
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for entry in WalkDir::new("foo").into_iter().filter_map(|e| e.ok()) {
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println!("{}", entry.path().display());
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}
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```
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### Example: follow symbolic links
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The same code as above, except `follow_links` is enabled:
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```rust,no_run
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use walkdir::WalkDir;
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for entry in WalkDir::new("foo").follow_links(true) {
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let entry = entry.unwrap();
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println!("{}", entry.path().display());
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}
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```
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### Example: skip hidden files and directories efficiently on unix
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This uses the `filter_entry` iterator adapter to avoid yielding hidden files
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and directories efficiently:
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```rust,no_run
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use walkdir::{DirEntry, WalkDir};
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fn is_hidden(entry: &DirEntry) -> bool {
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entry.file_name()
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.to_str()
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.map(|s| s.starts_with("."))
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.unwrap_or(false)
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}
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let walker = WalkDir::new("foo").into_iter();
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for entry in walker.filter_entry(|e| !is_hidden(e)) {
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let entry = entry.unwrap();
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println!("{}", entry.path().display());
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}
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```
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### Minimum Rust version policy
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This crate's minimum supported `rustc` version is `1.34.0`.
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The current policy is that the minimum Rust version required to use this crate
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can be increased in minor version updates. For example, if `crate 1.0` requires
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Rust 1.20.0, then `crate 1.0.z` for all values of `z` will also require Rust
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1.20.0 or newer. However, `crate 1.y` for `y > 0` may require a newer minimum
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version of Rust.
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In general, this crate will be conservative with respect to the minimum
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supported version of Rust.
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### Performance
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The short story is that performance is comparable with `find` and glibc's
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`nftw` on both a warm and cold file cache. In fact, I cannot observe any
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performance difference after running `find /`, `walkdir /` and `nftw /` on my
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local file system (SSD, ~3 million entries). More precisely, I am reasonably
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confident that this crate makes as few system calls and close to as few
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allocations as possible.
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I haven't recorded any benchmarks, but here are some things you can try with a
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local checkout of `walkdir`:
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```sh
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# The directory you want to recursively walk:
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DIR=$HOME
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# If you want to observe perf on a cold file cache, run this before *each*
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# command:
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sudo sh -c 'echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
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# To warm the caches
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find $DIR
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# Test speed of `find` on warm cache:
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time find $DIR
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# Compile and test speed of `walkdir` crate:
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cargo build --release --example walkdir
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time ./target/release/examples/walkdir $DIR
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# Compile and test speed of glibc's `nftw`:
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gcc -O3 -o nftw ./compare/nftw.c
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time ./nftw $DIR
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# For shits and giggles, test speed of Python's (2 or 3) os.walk:
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time python ./compare/walk.py $DIR
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```
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On my system, the performance of `walkdir`, `find` and `nftw` is comparable.
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