How to get the first file with a .txt extension in a directory with nodejs?

Question

The directory all my files are in is: \'/usr/home/jordan\' and I have many files under there (in the directory itself, but one file that is named with a .txt extension.

Answer 1

You can use fs.readdir to list the files and find the one that ends with .txt:

var myPath = "/usr/home/jordan";
fs.readdir(path, function(fileNames) {
    for(var i = 0; i < fileNames.length; i++) {
      var fileName = fileNames[i];
      if(path.extname(fileName) === ".txt") {
        fs.readfile(path.join(myPath,fileName), function(err,data) {
          console.log(data);
        });
        break;
      }
    }
  }
);

Note this requires path so add var path = require("path") at the top.