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From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: File listing for current directory under Unix?
Message-ID: <2709@root44.co.uk>
Date: 10 May 91 13:52:31 GMT
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marekp@pnet91.cts.com (Marek Pawlowski) writes:

>Does anyone know of a way to get the filenames of the files in the current
>directory, in to a two dimensional array of sorts?

gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:

>	Yes.  do a:    popen("ls *", "r");

That won't do what was asked for if there are any subdirectories under the
current directory.  To do it with popen() you should use either

	popen("/bin/ls", "r");
or
	popen("/bin/ls -a", "r");

depending on whether you want to include files beginning with "." or not.

As other people have already pointed out, it is much better to use
opendir(), readdir() and closedir() if you have them.
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