Acolyte

Hey, for my Systems Programming course this semester, our prof has given us an assignment to create a Unix search program in C. Essentially, you give it a file name, go through each file, compare against it and return a true or false result. It also needs to search subdirectories.

However, naturally, we don't have anything in our text covering this...yay. So, what code would I use to a) cycle through a list of files and b) compare a string against a file name. Obviously, not asking you to write my program for me, I just need to know what to use in these instances. If you've got any resources for writing Unix programs in C, as well, please link them, as that's what the course is on.

master5001

I have posted code that is unix compatible that does this in the past. If it still exists, feel free to just copy mine (and learn nothing). If the threads were old enough to be purged, just show us where you are thus far and we can baby step you through it.

Salem

There's even a tree walker in the FAQ....

But if you want to try yourself without peeking at the answer, look up these functions in the manual pages
- opendir
- readdir
- closedir

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IceDane

Write a function that lists all files in a dir - that's easy. When one of the files listed is a directory, append it to the current working directory and pass that path to the function that lists files in a dir. You might want to consider some kind of a multi-threading mechanism to speed it up, or fork(I've never used fork, not a big linux programmer, but I imagine it could be used to accomplish the task - If I'm wrong, be kind as to correct me).

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