fs: fs.readdirSync(path[, options]): list all the files in a directory

fs.readdirSync(path[, options])

This method returns an array of filenames excluding '.' and '..'.

Below table summarizes the arguments of readdirSync method.

Argument	Type	Description
path	string or Buffer or URL	Specify the path of the directory to list the contents for.
options	string or Object	Below table summarizes different options. Option Type Description encoding string Use this encoding scheme, while returning file names. Default value is utf8. If the encoding is set to 'buffer', the filenames returned will be passed as Buffer objects.

HelloWorld.js

var fs = require('fs');

var path = 'C:\\Users\\Public\\demo';

var fileNames = fs.readdirSync(path);

console.log(fileNames);

Above script, return all the file names in the directory 'C:\\Users\\Public\\demo'.

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