SCANDIR
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUE ERRORS CONFORMING TO EXAMPLE SEE ALSO
scandir, alphasort, versionsort - scan a directory for matching entries
#include dir, struct dirent ***namelist, int (select)(const struct dirent *), int (compar)(const void *, const void *)); int alphasort(const void *a, const void *b); int versionsort(const void *a, const void *b);
The scandir() function scans the directory dir, calling select() on each directory entry. Entries for which select() returns non-zero are stored in strings allocated via malloc(), sorted using qsort() with the comparison function compar(), and collected in array namelist which is allocated via malloc().
The alphasort() and versionsort() functions can be used as the comparison function for the scandir() function to sort the directory entries into alphabetical order. Although they parameters point to void, they are in fact pointers to pointers (struct dirent**) to two directory entries, a and b, to compare.
alphasort() will order the files with strcoll(3), while versionsort() will use strverscmp(3)?.
The scandir() function returns the number of directory entries selected or -1 if an error occurs.
The alphasort() and versionsort() functions return an integer less than, equal to, or greater than zero if the first argument is considered to be respectively less than, equal to, or greater than the second.
ENOMEM
Insufficient memory to complete the operation.
BSD 4.3
/* print files in current directory in reverse order */
opendir(3), readdir(3), closedir(3), rewinddir(3), telldir(3), seekdir(3)
One page links to versionsort(3):