From: mapson AT mapson DOT com (Mapson)
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Subject: Re: Files In A Directory
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 16:34:05 GMT
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On Thu, 05 Nov 1998 14:51:42 GMT, quazar AT freemail DOT co DOT za (Marc Brooker)
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I need to write a simple program to count the files in a directory, I
>am currently using a program that is passed
>count *.*
>and it outputs the number of arguements, is there a better way to do
>this?

I don't know if it is better, but in a situation where I needed a
count (as well as other information) I used something like this:

---------start code snippet--------

int done,TotalCount;
struct ffblk f;
char   Filter[]="*.*";

done=findfirst(Filter,&f,FA_ARCH|FA_RDONLY|FA_HIDDEN|FA_SYSTEM);
//count directory entries
while (!done)
    {
     ++TotalCount;
      done = findnext(&f);
     }

----------end code-----------

Incidentally, looking in that program, I also noticed that I used this
function for checking if individual files exist:

#include <unistd.h>
int __file_exists(const char *_fn);

Hope that helps.