gofindup

README

Go Find Up

Find a file or directory by walking up parent directories.

Usage

Install latest version

go get github.com/ojizero/gofindup

Import it into your code

import "github.com/ojizero/gofindup"

This package only exposes 2 functions, Findup and FindupFrom,

// looks the file recursively in parents starting from "./"
gofindup.Findup("some-file-or-directory")

// looks the file recursively in parents starting from "./some-starting-directory"
gofindup.FindupFrom("some-file-or-directory", "some-starting-directory")

Documentation

Index

• func Findup(name string) (string, error)
• func FindupFrom(name, dir string) (string, error)

Functions

func Findup

func Findup(name string) (string, error)

Recursively find a file by walking up parents in the file tree starting from the current working directory.

func FindupFrom

func FindupFrom(name, dir string) (string, error)

Recursively find a file by walking up parents in the file tree starting from a specific directory.