all filenames in directory in array/list

[John Yuson Geer]

In article <5302 at star.cs.vu.nl> mstuurm at cs.vu.nl (Mark Stuurman) writes:
>Could someone tell me how read all filenames in a directory into
>an array or a list (of filenames of course).
>

	"scandir" is what you seek.  It even allocates the array
	of directory structures!

#include<stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/dir.h>
main()
{
	int num,i;
	struct direct **namelist;
	char dir[] = "/usr/bin/X11";
	num = scandir(dir,&namelist,NULL,NULL);

	for(i=0;i<num;i++)
		fprintf(stderr,"%s\n",namelist[i]->d_name);
}

	
>                             Many thanks in advance,
>                             Mark Stuurman (mstuurm at cs.vu.nl)
>
>P.S. We use SunOS 4.0

no prob!

jyg'
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