Task

Walk a given directory tree and print files matching a given pattern.


Note: This task is for recursive methods.   These tasks should read an entire directory tree, not a single directory.


Note: Please be careful when running any code examples found here.



Related task

   Walk a directory/Non-recursively   (read a single directory). 


function findFiles($dir = '.', $pattern = '/./'){
  $prefix = $dir . '/';
  $dir = dir($dir);
  while (false !== ($file = $dir->read())){
    if ($file === '.' || $file === '..') continue;
    $file = $prefix . $file;
    if (is_dir($file)) findFiles($file, $pattern);
    if (preg_match($pattern, $file)){
      echo $file . "\n";
    }
  }
}
findFiles('./foo', '/\.bar$/');