findFiles
From R.utils v1.23.2
by Henrik Bengtsson
Finds one or several files in multiple directories
Finds one or several files in multiple directories.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'default':
findFiles(pattern=NULL, paths=NULL, recursive=FALSE, firstOnly=TRUE, allFiles=TRUE, ...)Arguments
- pattern
- A regular expression file name pattern to match.
- paths
- A
charactervectorof paths to be searched. - recursive
- If
TRUE, the directory structure is searched breath-first, in lexicographic order. - firstOnly
- If
TRUE, the method returns as soon as a matching file is found, otherwise not. - allFiles
- If
FALSE, files and directories starting with a period will be skipped, otherwise not. - ...
- Arguments passed to
list.files().
Value
- Returns a
vectorof the full pathnames of the files found.
Search path
The paths argument may also contain paths specified as
semi-colon (";") separated paths, e.g.
"/usr/;usr/bin/;.;".
Windows Shortcut links
Windows Shortcut links (*.lnk) are recognized and can be used
to immitate links to directories elsewhere.
For more details, see filePath().
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