List a directory in a C program on Unix machines

Dave Ciemiewicz ciemo at bananaPC.wpd.sgi.com
Sat Aug 11 08:29:41 AEST 1990


In article <1990Aug10.154506.846 at caen.engin.umich.edu>,
cys at caen.engin.umich.edu writes:
> 
> Hello everyone,
>   I am currently writing a C program on Unix machines. What I want to
> do is to store the file names in a directory into a character array.
> So I can do something to those files. I want to use Unix system calls
> to handle it. Could anyone help me out with that? 
>   Thanks in advance.
> 
> --Jim
>   hev7 at ub.cc.umich.edu

Try readdir().  See the readdir(3) manual page.

						--- Ciemo



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