You could hack something spawning a `ls` command et reading its stdout
output.
spawnLS(my_dir_path).stdout.pipe(split()).on('data', function (name) {
// name is the file or dir listed in your main directory
})
On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 03:49:52 UTC+2, Aseem Kishore wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a directory with a very large number of files in them (over 1M). I
> need to process them, so I'm using fs.readdir() on the directory.
>
> The problem is, fs.readdir() returns everything at once, causing my script
> to suddenly consume >1 GB of RAM.
>
> AFAICT, there's no way to stream this list instead of returning it all at
> once. Is there anything equivalent that I can do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Aseem
>
>
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