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list_files — List all files in a directory.
list_files returns all files in the directory given by Directory in the parameters Files. The current directory can be specified with '' or '.'. The parameter Options can be used to specify different processing options by passing a tuple of values. If Options contains 'files' only the files present in Directory are returned. If 'directories' is passed, only the directories present in Directory are returned. Directories are marked by a trailing '\' (Windows) or a trailing '/' (Unix-like systems). If files as well as directories should be returned, ['files','directories'] must be passed. If neither 'files' nor 'directories' is passed, list_files returns an empty tuple. By passing 'recursive', it can be specified that the directory tree should be searched recursively by examining all sub-directories. On Unix-like systems, 'follow_links' can be used to specify that symbolic links to files or directories should be followed. In the default setting, symbolic links are not dereferenced, and hence are not searched if they point to directories, and not returned if they point to files. For the recursive search, a maximum search depth can be specified with 'max_depth <d>', where '<d>' is a number that specifies the maximum depth. Hence, 'max_depth 2' specifies that Directory and all immediate sub-directories should be searched. If symbolic links should be followed it might happen that the search does not terminate if the symbolic links lead to a cycle in the directory structure. Because of this, at most 1000000 files (and directories) are returned in Files. By specifying a different number with 'max_files <d>', this value can be reduced.
Name of directory to be listed.
Processing options.
Default value: 'files'
Suggested values: 'files', 'directories', 'recursive', 'follow_links', 'max_depth 5', 'max_files 1000'
Found files (and directories).
list_files returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE) if the directory exists and could be read. Otherwise, an exception is raised.
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