Better way to count files in dirs

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From: Skydive!
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:42

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Hello,

I'm modifying some code that I've written in C previously and would like to try
to improve on it.  Right now, in order to determine the number of files
in a directory I am doing a system call "ls -1 | wc -l > tmp" and then opening
the file and fscanf the number.  Obviously this is a very ugly way to do
this and I would like to improve it.

Are there some functions in <dirents> library that I am missing?

Thanks.

bgolden@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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