# find [![Status](https://travis-ci.org/yuanchuan/find.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/yuanchuan/find "See test builds")

Find files or directories by name.

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## Installation

```bash
$ npm install --save find
```

## Examples

Find all files in current directory.

```javascript
var find = require('find');

find.file(__dirname, function(files) {
  console.log(files.length);
})
```

Filter by regular expression.

```javascript
find.file(/\.js$/, __dirname, function(files) {
  console.log(files.length);
})
```

## Features
  * Recursively search each sub-directories
  * Asynchronously or synchronously
  * Filtering by regular expression or string comparing

## Changelog
#### 0.2.0
* the first `pattern` option is now optional
* will follow symbolic links


## API

#### .file([pattern,] root, callback)

```javascript
find.file(__dirname, function(files) {
  //
})
```

#### .dir([pattern,] root, callback)
```javascript
find.dir(__dirname, function(dirs) {
  //
})
```


#### .eachfile([pattern,] root, action)

```javascript
find.eachfile(__dirname, function(file) {
  //
})
```

#### .eachdir([pattern,] root, action)

```javascript
find.eachdir(__dirname, function(dir) {
  //
})
```

#### .fileSync([pattern,] root)
```javascript
var files = find.fileSync(__dirname);
```

#### .dirSync([pattern,] root)
```javascript
var dirs = find.dirSync(__dirname);
```

#### .error([callback])

Handling errors in asynchronous interfaces

```javascript
find
  .file(__dirname, function(file) {
    //
  })
  .error(function(err) {
    if (err) {
      //
    }
  })
```

#### .end([callback])

Detect `end` in `find.eachfile` and `find.eachdir`

```javascript
find
  .eachfile(__dirname, function(file) {
    //
  })
  .end(function() {
    console.log('find end');
  })
```