getting folder content C language

Question

Hi,

How can i get the paths of a folder and its content. Say i have folder named MyFolder as

/tmp/MyFolder/ where it has subfolders SubFolder1, SubFolder2... and some files

Answer 1

You may take a look at the opendir() family functions.

Answer 2

Use dirent and dir structures. You can use opendir(), readdir() etc for manipulation.

readdir() will give one name at a time and you can keep calling it iteratively.

Answer 3

A more efficient way than {open,read,close}dir() is Linux' getdirentries() function. See getdirentries(3) for details.