find_files — find_files • assertHE

Find files based upon regular expression searching IMPORTANT - a Directory is NOT a file. (for most instances of file systems)

Usage

find_files(
  file_regx = ".R",
  path = ".",
  recursive = TRUE,
  exclude_files = NULL,
  exclude_dirs = NULL
)

Arguments

file_regx: = ".*" - a regular expression for files to source
path: = "." - a path to search
recursive: = TRUE - recurse into subdirectories
exclude_files: = NULL - regx for files to exclude
exclude_dirs: = NULL - regx for directories to exclude

Value

list of files

Examples

find_files(file_regx = ".*",  ## any file name
 path = ".*",   # the current directory and all subdirectories
 recursive = FALSE,  # don't recurse
 exclude_files = ".*utility.*", # exclude "utility" anywhere in basename
 exclude_dirs = "\\<tmp\\>|/tmp/|/tmp\\>|\\<tmp/"  # exclude any directory named "tmp", or subdirs
 )
#> character(0)