glob_test.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <glob.h>

char *myname;

/* globerr --- print error message for glob() */

int globerr(const char *path, int eerrno)
{
  fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s: %s\n", myname, path, strerror(eerrno));
  return 0;	/* let glob() keep going */
}

/* main() --- expand command-line wildcards and print results */

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  int i;
  int flags = 0;
  glob_t results;
  int ret;

  if (argc == 1) {
    fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s wildcard ...\n", argv[0]);
    exit(1);
  }

  myname = argv[0];	/* for globerr() */

  for (i = 1; i < argc; i++) {
    flags |= (i > 1 ? GLOB_APPEND : 0);
    ret = glob(argv[i], flags, globerr, & results);
    if (ret != 0) {
      fprintf(stderr, "%s: problem with %s (%s), stopping early\n",
              myname, argv[i],
              /* ugly: */	(ret == GLOB_ABORTED ? "filesystem problem" :
                           ret == GLOB_NOMATCH ? "no match of pattern" :
                           ret == GLOB_NOSPACE ? "no dynamic memory" :
                           "unknown problem"));
      break;
    }
  }

  for (i = 0; i < results.gl_pathc; i++)
    printf("%s\n", results.gl_pathv[i]);

  globfree(& results);
  return 0;
}