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 title: Local File Templates
 linktitle: Local File Templates
-description: Hugo's `readerDir` and `readFile` functions make it easy to traverse your project's directory structure and write file contents to your templates.
+description: Hugo's `readDir` and `readFile` functions make it easy to traverse your project's directory structure and write file contents to your templates.
 godocref: https://golang.org/pkg/os/#FileInfo
 date: 2017-02-01
 publishdate: 2017-02-01