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/* | |
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/histar/src/pkg/uclibc/test/stdlib/qsort.c | |
gcc -o qsort qsort.c -Wall | |
*/ | |
#include <stdio.h> | |
#include <dirent.h> | |
#include <stdlib.h> // /usr/include/stdlib.h:764:13: note: expected ‘__compar_fn_t’ but argument is of type ‘int (*)(const struct dirent **, const struct dirent **)’ | |
#include <unistd.h> | |
static int select_files(const struct dirent *dirbuf) | |
{ | |
if (dirbuf->d_name[0] == '.') | |
return 0; | |
else | |
return 1; | |
} | |
int main(void) | |
{ | |
struct dirent **array; | |
struct dirent *dirbuf; | |
int i, numdir; | |
/* The scandir() function reads the directory dirname and builds an array | |
of pointers to directory entries, using malloc() to allocate the space. | |
You can deallocate the memory allocated for the array by calling free(). | |
Free each pointer in the array, and then free the array itself. */ | |
chdir("/"); | |
// 1: scandir only | |
numdir = scandir(".", &array, select_files, NULL); | |
printf("\nGot %d entries from scandir().\n", numdir); | |
for (i = 0; i < numdir; ++i) { | |
dirbuf = array[i]; | |
printf("[%.2d] %s\n", i, dirbuf->d_name); | |
free(array[i]); | |
} | |
free(array); | |
// 2a: scandir + alphasort | |
numdir = scandir(".", &array, select_files, alphasort); | |
printf("\nGot %d entries from scandir() using alphasort().\n", numdir); | |
for (i = 0; i < numdir; ++i) { | |
dirbuf = array[i]; | |
printf("[%.2d] %s\n", i, dirbuf->d_name); | |
} | |
// 2b, array is not freed yet: qsort (+ alphasort) | |
printf("\nCalling qsort()\n"); | |
qsort(array, numdir, sizeof(struct dirent *), alphasort); // int (*)(const struct dirent **, const struct dirent **) | |
for (i = 0; i < numdir; ++i) { | |
dirbuf = array[i]; | |
printf("[%.2d] %s\n", i, dirbuf->d_name); | |
free(array[i]); | |
} | |
free(array); | |
return (0); | |
} |
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