Re: Better way to count files in dirs

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From: Tom Christiansen
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:04

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From the keyboard of bjg28027@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Skydive!):
: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?

RTFM readdir, opendir, etc.

--tom
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    Tom Christiansen      tchrist@convex.com      convex!tchrist
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    is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Death Star.
                John Woods in <14105@ksr.com> of comp.unix.bsd

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