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Walk through a directory recursively in node.js.
// ES6 version using asynchronous iterators, compatible with node v10.0+
const fs = require("fs");
const path = require("path");
async function* walk(dir) {
for await (const d of await fs.promises.opendir(dir)) {
const entry = path.join(dir, d.name);
if (d.isDirectory()) yield* walk(entry);
else if (d.isFile()) yield entry;
}
}
// Then, use it with a simple async for loop
async function main() {
for await (const p of walk('/tmp/'))
console.log(p)
}
// Callback-based version for old versions of Node
var fs = require("fs"),
path = require("path");
function walk(dir, callback) {
fs.readdir(dir, function(err, files) {
if (err) throw err;
files.forEach(function(file) {
var filepath = path.join(dir, file);
fs.stat(filepath, function(err,stats) {
if (stats.isDirectory()) {
walk(filepath, callback);
} else if (stats.isFile()) {
callback(filepath, stats);
}
});
});
});
}
if (exports) {
exports.walk = walk;
} else {
walk(".", manageFile);
}
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TypeScript version, and bug fix (based es6 version)

import fs from "fs";
import path from "path";

async function walk(dir: string) {
  const files = await fs.promises.readdir(dir);
  const chunks: string[][] = await Promise.all(
    files.map(async (file) => {
      const filePath = path.join(dir, file);
      const stats = await fs.promises.stat(filePath);
      if (stats.isDirectory()) return walk(filePath);
      else if (stats.isFile()) return [filePath];
      return [];
    })
  );

  return chunks.reduce((total, chunk) => total.concat(chunk), [] as string[]);
}

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