parent-search

Search files and folders in parent directories.

☁️ Installation

# Using npm
npm install --save parent-search

# Using yarn
yarn add parent-search

📋 Example

// Dependencies
var ParentSearch = require("parent-search");

// Search all package.json files starting with this example path
ParentSearch(__dirname + "/path/to/some/directory", "package.json", {
    multiple: true
}, function (err, data) {
    console.log(err || data);
}, function (path, dirname) {
    console.log("Found " + path.p + " in " + path.d);
});

// Search all package.json files starting with this example path
console.log(ParentSearch(__dirname + "/path/to/some/directory", "package.json", { multiple: true }));
console.log(ParentSearch(__dirname + "/path/to/some/directory", "package.json"));
console.log(ParentSearch(__dirname, "index.js", { obj: true }));

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📝 Documentation

ParentSearch(path, search, options, callback, progress)

Searches a file/directory in parent directories.

Having the following file structure:

.
├── example
│   └── some
│       └── dir
└── package.json

Supposing you want to find the path to the first package.json file, starting with example/some/dir, just do ParentSearch("path/to/some/dir", "package.json")

Params

• String path: The start directory path.

• String search: The file/directory to search.

• Object options: An object containing the following fields:

• multiple (Boolean): If true, the search will stop only when it reaches the root directory (default: false).

• obj (Boolean): If true, the results will be objects, otherwise they will be strings.

• Function callback: The callback function. If not provided, the sync version will be used instead. This is called with an error in first argument and location object/string of the found file/directory.

• Function progress: The progress function. This is called with an object when the file/directory is found. The object contains:

• d: The directory path of the found path.

• b: The basename.

• p: The absolute path to the file/directory.

• _: The directory of searched path.

Return

• Array|String|Object The location(s) that were found.

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📜 License

MIT © Ionică Bizău