Listing directories in Linux from C
- by nunos
I am trying to simulate linux command ls using linux api from c. Looking at the code it does make sense, but when I run it I get "stat error: No such file or directory". I have checked that opendir is working ok. I think the problem is in stat, which is returning -1 even though I think it should return 0.
What am I missing?
Thanks for your help.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
DIR *dirp;
struct dirent *direntp;
struct stat stat_buf;
char *str;
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf( stderr, "Usage: %s dir_name\n", argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
if ((dirp = opendir( argv[1])) == NULL)
{
perror(argv[1]);
exit(2);
}
while ((direntp = readdir( dirp)) != NULL)
{
if (stat(direntp->d_name, &stat_buf)==-1)
{
perror("stat ERROR");
exit(3);
}
if (S_ISREG(stat_buf.st_mode)) str = "regular";
else if (S_ISDIR(stat_buf.st_mode)) str = "directory";
else str = "other";
printf("%-25s - %s\n", direntp->d_name, str);
}
closedir(dirp);
exit(0);
}
