Searching for file in current directory with particular extension in C

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Is there any function in a standard C library which allow one to retrieve files with a particular extension like ".c"?

you can us the `exec` family of functions to call the usual unix utils (ls, grep etc) — jev, Sep 26 '13 at 16:39
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_mono/libc.html#Calling-Glob — lurker, Sep 26 '13 at 16:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '13 at 16:37

There are no standard C library functions that do that. There are platform-specific functions that do that.

EDIT: If you're on Debian, try looking up the documentation for glob or wordexp. The documentation for glob even has an example, looking up .c files, just as you wish.

Searching for file in current directory with particular extension in C

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