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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: File types
Message-ID: <1985@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 11 Jan 91 05:14:59 GMT
References: <25397@adm.brl.mil> <127561@linus.mitre.org>
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In article <127561@linus.mitre.org> dean@snkoil.mitre.org (Dean Cookson) writes:
>Anyone know any easy way for a program to check if the argument it was
>given as an input file is a directory??  I've been using stat, but
>whatever more uses seems faster.
>

Use stat(2).


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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