Iterate over all files in a directory

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I’m trying to make a static HTML version of h5ai so I can deploy it to S3 (and remove the PHP dependency).

How easy would this be to achieve using Hugo? Can it iterate over all files in a directory?

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It depends on what you want to do with the files? The closest thing I know is the readDir template function.

But as far as I know is something like content processing currently not possible.

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You can combine the readDir with

https://gohugo.io/extras/dynamiccontent/

But that’s probably not what the thread starter wants …

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The readDir function is perfect! I don’t want to actually modify the files, just create a template/html around them to basically create an apache dir listing but nicer.

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Awesome, this works really well! One question now, is it possible to change the default thing that Hugo does with directories/static files?

I basically want to put a whole lot of files in my static dir and get hugo to put index.html files in each directory that gets sync’d

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Hi @Mooash, Have you solved this task? Do you have a working code sample?
I’m also interested in automatically generated index.html’s for every subfolder, to easily list files and allow users to download them.

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I sadly never managed to solve this! If you manage to, please let me know!