C#•3y ago

✅ Searching for all possible files with .txt extension

How i can search for all .txt files on all drives ?

10 Replies

DrajzerOP•3y ago

Or i can search on one drive and then do it for another one but how

Directory.GetFiles("C:/", "*.txt", new EnumerationOptions() { RecurseSubdirectories = true })

Directory.GetFiles("C:/", "*.txt", new EnumerationOptions() { RecurseSubdirectories = true })

Although this is very likely to cause access violation exceptions and take a very long time

DrajzerOP•3y ago

i have this

public List<string> Search()
{
    var files = new List<string>();
    foreach (DriveInfo d in DriveInfo.GetDrives().Where(x => x.IsReady))
    {
        try
        {
            files.AddRange(Directory.GetFiles(d.RootDirectory.FullName, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories));
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            Logger.Log(e.Message); // Log it and move on
        }
    }

    return files;
}

public List<string> Search()
{
    var files = new List<string>();
    foreach (DriveInfo d in DriveInfo.GetDrives().Where(x => x.IsReady))
    {
        try
        {
            files.AddRange(Directory.GetFiles(d.RootDirectory.FullName, "*.txt", SearchOption.AllDirectories));
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            Logger.Log(e.Message); // Log it and move on
        }
    }

    return files;
}

mtreit•3y ago

You are almost certainly going to hit an access denied exception on at least some path somewhere on the drive so I don't think that code is going to work.

DrajzerOP•3y ago

it wont i need help idk i can try catch but idk

mtreit•3y ago

Here is a sketch of how I might approach it:

if (args.Length < 2)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Usage:");
    Console.WriteLine("Program.exe <rootPath> <searchPattern>");
    return;
}

var files = FindFiles(args[0], args[1]);

foreach (var file in files)
{
    Console.WriteLine(file);
}

IEnumerable<string> FindFiles(string rootPath, string searchPattern)
{
    var queue = new Queue<string>();
    queue.Enqueue(rootPath);

    while (queue.Count > 0)
    {
        var current = queue.Dequeue();

        try
        {
            foreach (var dir in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(current))
            {
                queue.Enqueue(dir);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Skipping {current} due to error: {e.Message}.");
            continue;
        }

        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(current, searchPattern))
        {
            yield return file;
        }
    }
}

if (args.Length < 2)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Usage:");
    Console.WriteLine("Program.exe <rootPath> <searchPattern>");
    return;
}

var files = FindFiles(args[0], args[1]);

foreach (var file in files)
{
    Console.WriteLine(file);
}

IEnumerable<string> FindFiles(string rootPath, string searchPattern)
{
    var queue = new Queue<string>();
    queue.Enqueue(rootPath);

    while (queue.Count > 0)
    {
        var current = queue.Dequeue();

        try
        {
            foreach (var dir in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(current))
            {
                queue.Enqueue(dir);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Skipping {current} due to error: {e.Message}.");
            continue;
        }

        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(current, searchPattern))
        {
            yield return file;
        }
    }
}

Probably want a try-catch around the EnumerateFiles call as well, exercise left to the reader.

canton7•3y ago

Any reason to go breadth-first rather than depth-first? That feels like it'll end up adding lots of dirs to the queue, while the max folder depth doesn't tend to be that large

mtreit•3y ago

Not really, just what I did off the top of my head

if (args.Length < 2)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Usage:");
    Console.WriteLine("Program.exe <rootPath> <searchPattern>");
    return;
}

var files = FindFiles(args[0], args[1]);

foreach (var file in files)
{
    Console.WriteLine(file);
}

IEnumerable<string> FindFiles(string rootPath, string searchPattern)
{
    var stack = new Stack<string>();
    stack.Push(rootPath);

    while (stack.Count > 0)
    {
        var current = stack.Pop();

        try
        {
            foreach (var dir in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(current))
            {
                stack.Push(dir);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Skipping {current} due to error: {e.Message}.");
            continue;
        }

        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(current, searchPattern))
        {
            yield return file;
        }
    }
}

if (args.Length < 2)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Usage:");
    Console.WriteLine("Program.exe <rootPath> <searchPattern>");
    return;
}

var files = FindFiles(args[0], args[1]);

foreach (var file in files)
{
    Console.WriteLine(file);
}

IEnumerable<string> FindFiles(string rootPath, string searchPattern)
{
    var stack = new Stack<string>();
    stack.Push(rootPath);

    while (stack.Count > 0)
    {
        var current = stack.Pop();

        try
        {
            foreach (var dir in Directory.EnumerateDirectories(current))
            {
                stack.Push(dir);
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"Skipping {current} due to error: {e.Message}.");
            continue;
        }

        foreach (var file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(current, searchPattern))
        {
            yield return file;
        }
    }
}

There 🙂 Alternate version I guess you would want to call Reverse() on Directory.EnumerateDirectories() if you want the same order you would get if you did something like Get-ChildItem -Recurse (i.e., dir /s)

DrajzerOP•3y ago

thank you lot of ❤️ but i cant access Desktop and Documents,i can access if im going first in directory and list files then get files name but with that code i cant im running .exe as admin

DirectoryInfo place = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\*****\Desktop");
FileInfo[] fls = place.GetFiles();
Console.WriteLine("DESKTOP: ");
foreach(FileInfo i in fls)
{
    Console.WriteLine(i.Name);
}

DirectoryInfo place = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\*****\Desktop");
FileInfo[] fls = place.GetFiles();
Console.WriteLine("DESKTOP: ");
foreach(FileInfo i in fls)
{
    Console.WriteLine(i.Name);
}

like this i can create list return it but is there way to dont do like that and access it with ur code

Accord•3y ago

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