symwalk

import "github.com/edwardrf/symwalk"

symwalk provide a walk function similar to filepath.Walk but follow symbolic links but avoid visiting directories more than once even if there is a symbolic link loop.

Whats the difference from facebookarchive/symwalk

The main difference is this Walk implementation will not visit the same directories more than once even if there is a symbolic link loop. This is achieved by

always evaluate the symbolic links to its real path by filepath.EvalSymlinks, this means your walk function will received the real path instead of the relative path from the symbolic links
keep record of all visited directories using a map

Since the underlying implementation make use of filepath.Walk, the rest of the behavior is the same as filepath.Walk.

Example

symwalk.Walk("/tmp/", func(path string, info os.FileInfo, err error) error {
  fmt.Println(path)
  return nil
})