Thread: search for file function

i have the code that will search for a file, but i don't want it to search in only 1 directory, i want it to search through the entire computer.

anyone have any code?

Log C: and every time the FindFirst/Next returns a directory, so search that, you could write a recursive searcher to do so, i.e. search C: if the first it finds is a directory called Alpha, so search c:\Alpha and so on.

If you don't know how to detect if a file is a directory or not, part 3 of my searching tutorial covers it.

okay thanks. heres what i have so far

Code:

WIN32_FIND_DATA FileData; 
	HANDLE hSearch; 
	DWORD dwAttrs; 
	char szDirPath[] = "c:\\TEXTRO\\"; 
	char szNewPath[MAX_PATH]; 
	char szHome[MAX_PATH]; 
	 
	BOOL fFinished = FALSE; 
	 
	hSearch = FindFirstFile("C:\\*.*", &FileData); 
	if (hSearch == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) 
	{ 
		cout<<"no files found";
		return;
	} 
		 
	while (!fFinished) 
	{ 

		cout<< FileData.cFileName<<endl;

		

		if (!FindNextFile(hSearch, &FileData)) 
		{
			if (GetLastError() == ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES) 
			{ 
				cout<<"no more files\n";
				fFinished = TRUE; 
			} 
			else 
			{ 
				cout<<"couldnt find next file";
				return;
			} 
		}
	} 
	 	 
	FindClose(hSearch);

what i really want is something like the dos "tree" command