xfile

# Xfile

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`Xfile` is a utility module providing augmentations to the functions in the built-in `File` module, including the support of recursive file listing, `grep` and other programmatic filtering of filenames and lines, line counts (think `wc -l`), and `head` and `tail` functions.

See the [Xfile module](https://hexdocs.pm/xfile/Xfile.html) for full API documentation.

## Examples

### ls

Use a regular expression to return only `.txt` files:

      iex> {:ok, stream} = Xfile.ls("path/to/files", filter: ~r/\.txt$/)
      {:ok, #Function<59.58486609/2 in Stream.transform/3>}
      iex> Enum.to_list(stream)
      [
        "path/to/files/a.txt",
        "path/to/files/b.txt",
        "path/to/files/subdir/c.txt"
      ]

Use a function to apply more complex logic to filter the results:

      iex> {:ok, stream} = Xfile.ls("mydir", filter: fn x ->
        stat = File.stat!(x)
        stat.size > 1024
      end)
      {:ok, #Function<59.58486609/2 in Stream.transform/3>}
      iex> Enum.to_list(stream)
      [
        "mydir/big-file",
        "mydir/big-file2",
        # ...
      ]

Limit the depth of the recursion to the given directory and its subdirectories, but no further:

      iex> {:ok, stream} = Xfile.ls("top/dir", recursive: 1)
      {:ok, #Function<59.58486609/2 in Stream.transform/3>}
      iex> Enum.to_list(stream)
      [
        "top/dir/a",
        "top/dir/b",
        # ...
        "top/dir/sub1/x",
        "top/dir/sub1/y"
      ]

### grep

You can use a string, a regular expression, or an arity 1 function to find matching lines within the given file:

      iex> Xfile.grep("dir", ".gitignore") 
      |> Enum.to_list()

      ["# The directory Mix will write compiled artifacts to.\\n",
      "# The directory Mix downloads your dependencies sources to.\\n"]

See [Xfile](https://hexdocs.pm/xfile/Xfile.html) for more functions and examples.

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## Installation

If [available in Hex](https://hex.pm/docs/publish), the package can be installed
by adding `xfile` to your list of dependencies in `mix.exs`:

    def deps do
      [
        {:xfile, "~> 0.4.0"}
      ]
    end

Documentation can be generated with [ExDoc](https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc)
and published on [HexDocs](https://hexdocs.pm). Once published, the docs can
be found at <https://hexdocs.pm/xfile>.

## Image Attribution

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