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Sandaru
Sandaru

Reputation: 1259

get only first level sub directories C#

I have folder structure like follow

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Path of the main folder is

C:\Users\me\Desktop\main_folder\

withing that there can be any number of sub folders with any name.

what i need to do is go in to each of that sub folder and extract the zip files in it.

For this, in powerhsell we can use the path like follow which takes any sub folder in the given folder.

C:\Users\me\Desktop\main_folder\*\*.zip

but how to do this in C# ?

method that i'm trying to use is 

System.IO.Directory.GetFiles("C:\Users\me\Desktop\main_folder\*\",
      "*.zip",System.IO.SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);

Upvotes: 5

Views: 4100

Answers (2)

Matthew Watson
Matthew Watson

Reputation: 109547

Try this:

    string root = @"C:\Users\me\Desktop\main_folder\";

    var files = 
        Directory.EnumerateDirectories(root).SelectMany(
            directory => Directory.EnumerateFiles(directory, "*.zip"));

Upvotes: 8

Mitulát báti
Mitulát báti

Reputation: 2166

You can go with LINQ:

string mainFolder = @"C:\Users\me\Desktop\main_folder";
List<string> zipPaths = new List<string>();

string[] subDirectories = Directory.GetDirectories(mainFolder);
subDirectories.ToList().ForEach((path) =>
{
    // you can either process your zips here...
    // (in this case you don't have to add the paths to the zipPaths list)
    zipPaths.AddRange(Directory.GetFiles(path, "*.zip"));
});

// or you can process your zipPaths list here...

All the paths of the ZIP files will be in the zipPaths list.

Upvotes: 1

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