Finder Component ================ Finder finds files and directories via an intuitive fluent interface. use Symfony\Component\Finder\Finder; $finder = new Finder(); $iterator = $finder ->files() ->name('*.php') ->depth(0) ->size('>= 1K') ->in(__DIR__); foreach ($iterator as $file) { print $file->getRealpath()."\n"; } But you can also use it to find files stored remotely like in this example where we are looking for files on Amazon S3: $s3 = new \Zend_Service_Amazon_S3($key, $secret); $s3->registerStreamWrapper("s3"); $finder = new Finder(); $finder->name('photos*')->size('< 100K')->date('since 1 hour ago'); foreach ($finder->in('s3://bucket-name') as $file) { print $file->getFilename()."\n"; } Resources --------- You can run the unit tests with the following command: $ cd path/to/Symfony/Component/Finder/ $ composer.phar install --dev $ phpunit