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Questions tagged [opendir]

A PHP, PERL, C library function for opening a directory handle. Questions are about the workings or issues with the opendir function.

The opendir() function is used to open up a directory handle to be used in subsequent closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() calls.

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PHP: Safe way to remove a directory?

Consider this code: public static function removeDir($src) { if (is_dir($src)) { $dir = @opendir($src); if ($dir === false) return; while(($file = readdir($dir)) !== false) { if ($file != '.' &&…
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Linux, C: access() not catching permission problems, or something

I am writing a program to mimic some of the behavior of find that walks a directory tree and calls lstat on the files it finds there to determine their type. The real find will ignore files where the user does not have R or X access in that…
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"Double dot" directory name in C?

I'm writing a program for class, and I'm wondering about the output for a bit of code. I have some code like this: DIR* dir = opendir("."); struct dirent* reader; while ((reader = readdir(dir)) != NULL) { //print the name of the path found by…
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Behavior of opendir() after removing a directory with rmdir()

I'm trying to understand how removing the current working directory works from a C program. I'm using the Advanced Programming in Unix Enviroment book as a reference. First, I make the following sequence of calls (/tmp is an existing directory): //…
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Segfault with readdir()

I'm just starting with C programming, and i'm trying to read and display files in a directory (just like the ls command). Here's a part of my code where I get a segfault, and I have no clue why: void display_dir(char *dir) { DIR *strm; …
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Access Files from different domains using php

I have PDF documents stored in a shared folder in a server where I need to access them from a web application through file browsing. I know the names of the files stored there. So my link would be like (file:\\server\folder\abc.pdf). My php…
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Sort opendir In Alphabetical Order

Is it possible to sort opendir into althabetical order? $user = $fgmembersite->UserFullName(); $handle = opendir("users/$user/"); while (false!==($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != ".."){ echo 'some code here'; …
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Can opendir(pathname) change the value of the input pathname?

I've received some curious results while using opendir(): int dtw(char *path) { struct stat statbuf; ... else if (S_ISDIR(statbuf.st_mode)) { printf("Path is: %s\n", path); struct dirent *dirent; …
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Scanning a directory and modify file in c

I'm trying to create a function that scans a folder on my Windows PC and every time it does, a file called "Filter.txt" is appended with the string "Test Script". Now the problems are 2, the first is that the scan must be performed either in the…
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How to sort a list of files build up with PHP opendir() and hide extensions?

As I only get one very very tiny part of the PHP phenomenon I'm very happy that I managed to create the following script by searching the web. As you can see, this shows the files present in the folder 'archive' on the website I'm building. It's for…
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Segmentation fault with opendir()?

I can't get to know why do I keep getting this segmentation fault in this function Could anyone enlighten me about how to get rid of it and get my program to work...? Lign 33 : flux = opendir(path); Lign 98 : ret = listdir(env, stock, pos,…
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Nodejs "closing directory handle on garbage collection"

Нello, the following is an excerpt from my code: let dirUtility = async (...args) => { let dir = await require('fs').promises.opendir('/path/to/some/dir...'); let entries = dir.entries(); for await (let childDir of dir)…
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opendir on IIS10 and PHP 8

I have recently been setting up a corporate server to put my website online. Previously this website was hosted on my pc using XAMPP with PHP 5; now I have Windows Server 2019 and PHP 8. Everything works, but something is wrong in opendir() and…
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PHP opendir Fails when reading from Windows path to Linux server

I am running Apache on a Linux server, I have an application mounted there that needs to read a directory from the enduser computer to copy some files, the problem is that the users work with Windows, all the app works fine but when trying the…
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Ignore hidden files with php

I am trying to scan a folder of images, however I keep seeing the ._ files the mac created I am using this code:
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