FILELIST: Stata module to recursively search directories for files

Robert Picard

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: filelist searches a directory for files that match a specific pattern and continues searching recursively in all its subdirectories. Search results either replace the data in memory or are saved as a Stata dataset on disk. The results include the file size in bytes.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9.2
Keywords: data management; directory; file; recursive (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-11-02, Revised 2019-05-18
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install filelist". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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