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Re: READDIR

On 2/23/2017 10:48 AM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:
In addition to "." and ".." (the short-cut symbolic links to the
current and parent directory), in Unix systems, by convention, if the
file name begins with a ".", it is considered to be a "hidden" file, so
perhaps you might not want to process those files?

In that case, you could just check if the first character of the name is
a "." and if so, skip that file, and that will also take care of "."
and ".." too.

Mark makes a good point: you may not want to process sub-directories. I
use the stat() API and test st_objtype = '*DIR'.


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