Course of Raku / Objects, I/O, and exceptions / Input and output / Working with directories

Listing a directory

The dir routine returns the entries of a directory — each as a path object. Their order is not fixed, so it is common to sort the result for predictable output.

mkdir 'box';
spurt 'box/a.txt', '';
spurt 'box/b.txt', '';

for dir('box').sort -> $entry {
    say $entry.basename;
}

This prints the names of the files in the box directory, in order:

a.txt
b.txt

Each entry is a full path object; the basename method gives just the final name, without the directory part. From a path object you can ask all the same questions as before — .f, .d, .e — so you can, for instance, walk through a directory and pick out only the files.

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