Finding a directory, and printing whats in it

I am trying to write a C program that receives the name of a directory, and then prints all the files and directories under that directory.

I am having a really hard time doing this. I have gotten my program to receive the string of which directory to find, but I am not sure how to display everything.

I've looked around on the web, and found the dirent.h. But I am not sure how to use those functions, or even if they are the ones I should be using. sys/types.h is another one that I have been looking into as well.

This program shouldn't be hard for me, but for some reason I just can't figure it out.

Anybody out there have any advice or help to offer me?
Thanks ahead of time.

well this is operating system dependent, sounds like you are using linux, might want to look here
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...=1045780608#05

and here to change directories

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...=1045780608#02

That would depend on the OS environment you are using. If you are doing this in Windows you can use _findfirst() _findnext() functions declared in io.h you will also need to use a _finddata_t struct instance to find the files and directories.

yes, i am using unix. thank you for your help, those links helped me out a lot. but now it draws up another question from me:

Is there a way for my program to determine the difference between files and directories while printing them out?

Effectively, I would like to have my program print out all the files and directories in the current directory, and then state whether each is a file, or a directory. Any ideas?

>Is there a way for my program to determine the difference between files and directories while printing them out?
Of course:

Code:

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#include <sys/stat.h>

int isDir ( char *path )
{
  struct stat s;

  if ( stat ( path, &s ) != -1 )
    return S_ISDIR ( s.s_mode );
  return 0;
}

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