Re: walking a directory tree

["Ken Smith" <kgsmith@...>]

correction.

On 12/18/06, Ken Smith <kgsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found myself in a position where I must use Lua to walk a
> directory tree and performing some operation on every file.  Is there
> an idiomatic way to do this in Lua?  Ideally, I would like something
> like Python's os.walk(dir).  Right now, I'm doing this.
>
> for file in io.popen('/usr/bin/find dir -type f') do

for file in io.popen('/usr/bin/find dir -type f'):lines() do

>    -- deal with file
> end
>
> This seems rather heavy-handed and a program that uses this construct
> runs out of memory although it is not yet clear if this construct is
> the cause.  Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> environment details:
> Darwin 8.8.1 (Mac OS X 10.4.8)
> Lua 5.1.1
>
>   Ken Smith