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From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix C routines
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.153414.19109@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 15:34:14 GMT
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In article <1990Dec5.051318.22071@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>, andrew@ee.su.oz.au (Andrew Ho) writes:
> 
>   I am writing an application for Unix X-window
> which requires the following routines :
> 
>   (1) a routine that can return the full path
>       string of the current directory
> 
>   (2) another routine to return all the file
>       names in the current directory
> 
>   Are there any Unix built-in system calls to do so ?

There are C library calls that can do want you need:

Try getwd or getcwd to get the pathname of the current directory.

Try opendir, readir, and closedir to iteratively get all the names
of the files in a directory.

Of course, you'll need to check that your C libraries actually
implement these calls.  Enjoy!

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