Children

Search the contents of a directory and perform operations on the objects encountered

Descendant Processing

All operations/filters that can be also performed on all descendants of a path. Calling the descendants method instead of children will visit all descendants of the Path rather than just the children.

    import scalax.file.Path

    val path:Path = Path("/tmp/")

    // by default only the files contained in the current path are returned but if depth
    // is set (&lt;0 will traverse entire tree) then the stream will visit subdirectories in
    // pre-order traversal

    // search for a .gitignore file down to a depth of 4
    val gitIgnoreRestrictedTree: Option[Path] = path.descendants (depth=4).find (_.name == ".gitignore")

    // search for a .gitignore in the entire subtree
    val gitIgnoreFullTree: Option[Path] = path.descendants ().find (_.name == ".gitignore")