lib: Add readTree function to filesystem

Add a friendly function to easily return a flattened list of files
within a directory.

This is useful if you want to easily iterate or concatSep the list of
files all found within a directory.
(i.e. when constructing Java's CLASSPATH)

Style improvements

Co-authored-by: Silvan Mosberger <github@infinisil.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/filesystem.nix b/lib/filesystem.nix
index fc35a1a72c6..0a1275e547c 100644
--- a/lib/filesystem.nix
+++ b/lib/filesystem.nix
@@ -42,4 +42,16 @@
               type = (builtins.readDir parent).${base} or null;
           in file == /. || type == "directory";
     in go (if isDir then file else parent);
+
+
+  # listFilesRecursive: Path -> [ Path ]
+  #
+  # Given a directory, return a flattened list of all files within it recursively.
+  listFilesRecursive = dir: lib.flatten (lib.mapAttrsToList (name: type:
+    if type == "directory" then
+      lib.filesystem.listFilesRecursive (dir + "/${name}")
+    else
+      dir + "/${name}"
+  ) (builtins.readDir dir));
+
 }