Re: Inode

[Sunil kajarekar <ksunil@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If u don't want to implement recursive search, then there is function
provided by Unix (Not sure of Linux) 'ftw' (File tree Walk). u can use
it and it will traverse the file tree recursively. The required header
is <ftw.h>. For detailed info give man ftw.

Sunix.

Binand Raj S. wrote:
> In a shell script, find is fine. But in a C program, implementing find will be
> faster than using find in the program. I suggest you go to the beginning of
> the directory tree from where you want to search from (the syscall chdir()),
> use opendir() and readdir() recursively, and use stat() on all the entries in
> the directory. Compare stat_buf.st_ino with the inode number you have. Then
> fopen() the file and do whatever you want with it. Don't forget to closedir()
> the directory.
> 
> This is going to be a nice exercise in recursive programming using C.
> 
> The required headers are sys/types.h, sys/stat.h, dirent.h and stdio.h and
> possibly other headers.
> 
> Please followup to linux-india-programmers, as I feel this is more on topic
> there. I have crossposted this reply there.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Binand
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