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

[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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