Simple Program to List a Directory, Mark II

Here is a revised version of the directory lister found above (see section Simple Program to List a Directory). Using the scandir function we can avoid using the functions which directly work with the directory contents. After the call the found entries are available for direct used.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>

static int
one (struct dirent *unused)
{
  return 1;
}

int
main (void)
{
  struct dirent **eps;
  int n;

  n = scandir ("./", &eps, one, alphasort);
  if (n >= 0)
    {
      int cnt;
      for (cnt = 0; cnt < n; ++cnt)
        puts (eps[cnt]->d_name);
    }
  else
    perror ("Couldn't open the directory");

  return 0;
}

Please note the simple selector function for this example. Since we want to see all directory entries we always return 1.

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