find-file-up

find-file-up

Find a file, starting with the given cwd and recursively searching up one directory until it's found (or we run out of directories). Async and sync.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save find-file-up

Usage

var findFile = require('find-file-up');

async

// find `foo.txt` starting at the given directory
findFile('foo.txt', '.', function(err, fp) {
  //=> /Users/jonschlinkert/dev/find-file-up/fixtures/foo.txt
});

// search user home
findFile('foo.txt', '~/', function(err, fp) {
  //=> /Users/jonschlinkert/foo.txt
});

sync

var file = findFile.sync('foo.txt', 'a/b/c/');

About

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Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Contributors

Commits	Contributor
19	jonschlinkert
1	pointnet

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2017, Jon Schlinkert. Released under the MIT License.

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