Re: [Caml-list] howto: recursively iterate over filesystem

[Ivan <ivg@ieee.org>]

It seems that I would try it. I've just started to search for already available solutions. Just to exclude a chance to invent a bicycle =)

03.07.2012, 12:24, "Gabriel Scherer" <gabriel.scherer@gmail.com>:
> Have you tried the dead simple solution first, with Sys.readdir and
> Sys.is_directory from the standard library (
> http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Sys.html ), to see
> if it suits your need? You can always switch to richer but more
> complex alternatives if you have more specific needs later.
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Ivan <ivg@ieee.org> wrote:
>
>>  Merсi, it looks nice! But I didn't understand what's the issue with links. The FilePath.mli file contains a
>>  warning, that I've failed to understand:
>>    32     This module manipulate abstract path that are not bound to a real filesystem.
>>    33     In particular, it makes the assumption that there is no symbolic link that
>>    34     should modify the meaning of a path. If you intend to use this module
>>    35     against a real set of filename, the best solution is to apply to every
>>    36     filename to solve symbolic link through {!FileUtil.readlink}.
>>
>>  In my situation a folder, which I'd like to traverse, is plenty of links.
>>  Maybe someone can clarify it for me?
>>
>>  03.07.2012, 10:19, "Stéphane Glondu" <steph@glondu.net>:
>>>  Le 03/07/2012 05:30, Ivan a écrit :
>>>>   Are there any libraries that allow to walk through a filesystem (linux
>>>>   filesystem in particular). At best I would like to find some library
>>>>   that provides an ``iter'' function that will recursively iterate over
>>>>   files and subdir in the given folder. At the very best, a library
>>>>   resembling (by functionality) boost.filesystem will be very nice.
>>>  http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-fileutils/
>>>
>>>  Cheers,
>>>
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>>>  Stéphane
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