lsd

wait what? this isn't that type of program.

Streaming ls like module. Write a path into lsd and get back a stream of that directories contents. You will get back a stream of full paths. You can easily hookup a filtering transform stream to alter the output to fit your needs (i.e. strip the paths if you don't need them).

Initialize lsd with depth option and then write a path to lsd and get back a stream of the directories contents DEPTH levels deep. Pass 0 to depth option and get back the entire directory tree.

install

npm install lsd

example

Basic example...

var Lsd = require('lsd'),
    lsd = Lsd();

lsd.write(process.cwd());
lsd.pipe(process.stdout);

This will simply stream the contents of the current working directory to the console. Pretty basic, just like ls.

To make it a little more interesting you could recurse. With just a few lines of code you could traverse your entire hardrive!! I must warn you that extended exposure to the terminal while traversing over, say '/', may cause dizziness. Traverse are your own risk.

###use this code (recurser.js)...

var Lsd = require('../lsd.js'),
	lsd = Lsd({depth : process.argv[2] || 0}),
	errs = [];

lsd.pipe(process.stdout);

// catch any EACCES or similar you may find down in the depths of /
lsd.on('error', function(err) {
	errs.push(err);
});

lsd.on('end', function() {
	console.dir(errs);
	console.log("__ENDED__");
});

lsd.write(process.argv[3] || process.cwd());

###and run like...

node recurser.js 2 /

And commense the Recursion!!!!

Hookup some more pipes to filter the output based on your needs.

opts

###depth use like :

var Lsd = require('lsd'),
	lsd = Lsd({depth : 2});

now when you write a directory to it it will not end until it has gone 2 levels deep from the root.

Pass in a 0 and lsd will stream the entire directory tree.

events

###directory listen for this event to get directory names as they are found

lsd.on('directory', function(dir) {
	// do something cool with directories here
});

###file listen for this event to get file names as the are found

lsd.on('file', function(dir) {
	// do something cool with files here
});

###notFileorDir listen for anything that isn't a file or directory. This includes anything else that fs.stat can identify. Such as sockets, symlinks, fifo pipes, etc...

lsd.on('notFileorDir', function(thing) {
	// you won't know what it is but at least your know its there
});

###enter everytime starts to read a new subdirectory you get an 'enter' event. This event will fire in the fs.stat callback right after the if (err) check so you'll know if you enter then there was no error reading the directory contents.

lsd.on('enter', function(dir) {
	// know when enter a new directory
});

###exit similar to enter but this fires when you are finished with a particular sub-directory

lsd.on('enter', function(dir) {
	// I'm now done with this sub-directory
});

###contents This will give you an object containing the sub-directory name and the directorys contents in an array.

lsd.on('contents', function(dir) {
	// dir is an object with 2 properties
	// dir is a string giving the full path of the directory name
	// contents is the same array you would get back from using fs.readdir
});

###empty this will tell you that the current directory is empty so you should expect no items

lsd.on('empty', function(dir) {
	// fill up an array to keep track of all the empty dirs 
});

test

run npm test and hold on to your seat!

license

MIT use at your own risk!!!!