Symfony Finder ignores files beginning by dot

Question

I am using the Finder for sending spooled e-mails, but automatic name generator puts dots in the filename and sometimes they appear at the beginning of the file.

It seems that the finder can't get files with that name - well those files are hidden... Has anyone experienced that behaviour? Any advice how to use the finder to locate hidden files?

Thx

Mewl

Answer 1

Just set ignoreDotFiles to false.

$finder = new Finder();
$finder->files()->ignoreDotFiles(false)->in('directory');

For .git files, set ignoreVCS to false

$finder->files()
    ->ignoreVCS(false)
    ->ignoreDotFiles(false)->in('directory');

Cochlea

Additionally. Even if ignoreDotFiles is set to false but you are using bash wildcard pattern of filename it won't work. So there you'd better use regular expression for name matching. – Adequate