I need to list the files in my current directory and have them packed into an array of chars, in Linux.
I use system("ls > temp_file"); to write them one per row in a temp file, and then I copy from this file to my string.
Is there a more concise way out there?
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Salem 5,138 Posting Sage
The POSIX portable way to do this is to use
http://www.rt.com/man/opendir.3.html
and readdir() and closedir()
Linux specific? Try this
http://www.rt.com/man/ftw.3.html
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