How to read all the files of a folder?

[As de Espada]

I was just wondering... I want to do a ReadFile for each file in a folder. Is there any way to do that? (of course I don't know those files at compilation time)

It's not important right now, but I am curious.

[dnmr]

nope

edit: you could use shell_exec() and do some console magics, but that is OS-dependent and unsafe i think

[JotEmI]

I think shell_exec() doesn't return the actual result of executed command, only -1 if it failed and 0 if it succeeded. So something like shell_exec('ls -al') won't retrieve list of files. You could make a bash script that writes the list of all files in specified folder to a txt file which you could then read through ScriptCore. Only I'm not sure if you can run a bash script with shell_exec().

[Falcon`]

shell_exec most likely means that you can.

[jrgp]

Only I'm not sure if you can run a bash script with shell_exec().

Under unix/linux, it doesn't make a difference if the program you try to run is a script or a binary; if it is a script and has the necessary shebang line as well as executable permissions, I'm sure shell_exec would work fine.

However if it doesn't already the script core should really have a glob() utility, like most languages do.