HELP: ===> wildcard ===> filename listing
Bryon S. Lape
lape at hydra2b.cs.utk.edu
Fri Feb 22 08:03:05 AEST 1991
In article <1991Feb21.172953.7488 at cs.utk.edu>, lape at cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape) writes:
|> In article <1991Feb21.140918.1650 at cs.utk.edu> lape at cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape) writes:
|> >
|> > I need to know who to get all the filenames that meet a given
|> >wildcard in Unix from c. For instance, say my programme my_foo will print
|> >the contents of any file given and I type:
|> >
|> > my_foo *a*.c
|> >
|> > What I would like to get is all files with an a in them and an
|> >extension of .c, and print them to stdout (not the same way pg or more
|> >does, by the way). How do I get a list of files meeting the passed
|> >wildcard? I have done this in Quick C but that was using none standard
|> >funcs.
|> >
|> >
|> > Please e-mail responses.
|> >
|> >
|> >Bryon|>
Now having said Unix, I wish to make it more general, so here goes....
Is there a generic c solution to the above problem?? For all you flamers out there, please note that this IS a C question and has nothing to do with shells, or os, or etc....
Bryon
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