# Include all files from folder

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/include-all-files-from-folder/77475>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [March 6, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/include-all-files-from-folder/77475 "2022-03-06T13:55:46Z")\
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Hello,  
I can import a file into the Julia environment with `include("path/file.jl")`. Is it possible to include all the files present in “path”? `include("path/*.jl")` does not work…  
Thanks

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/include-all-files-from-folder/77475/2 "2022-03-06T15:19:35Z")

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You could use

```julia
include.(filter(contains(r".jl$"), readdir(dir; join=true)))

```

which lists the absolute pathes of all files in `dir`, filters for files with end with `.jl` and includes them one by one.

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**Post date:** [March 6, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/include-all-files-from-folder/77475/3 "2022-03-06T17:39:10Z")

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For a wildcard-based solution (and if you’re willing to add a dependency for this), you can use the `Glob` package:

```julia
foreach(include, glob("*.jl", dir))

```

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2022, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/include-all-files-from-folder/77475/4 "2022-03-07T11:21:41Z")

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Note that this works only if the files are independent since the order of the includes may vary between systems. To save you future headache I suggest that you list the includes explicitly.