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How can I detect an existing directory in ~/ with stat in C?
If the directory ~/testdir not exists, I want to create it.
Before the test, I create the directory ~/testdir, but stat is not detecting it, and the program tries to create it once more.
I only has ...
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how to get directory size with flutter?
I'm using flutter and I want to know the capcity size of a directory.
this is my code :
final String directory = (await getApplicationSupportDirectory()).path;
My question is how to get directory ...
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Differentiating between files and directories on linux in C
I have a function that takes in an argument which is a file path. That path is then used in conjunction with the readdir function and stat function to print out all of the files and directories in a ...
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directory listing C (using dirent and stat)
Im making a directory listing application that prints a
directory listing just like the ’ls’ and ’dir’ commands in Linux and Windows respec-
tively.
my function: prints a listing of all files in the ...
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stat() function only works in the current directory C language
i'm using C on windows to read the contents of a directory and info about each entry, however the stat() function only works if i opened the current directory "."
directory = opendir(".")
whenever ...
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how to check if any of the files in a directory changed
Given a directory, I'd like to know whether the files in the directory have been modified or not. (Boolean) i.e. if the directory's state has changed from before.
I don't want to run a file watcher ...
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stat using S_ISDIR Don't seem to always work
I've noticed something strange in the output of my function (in c).
This function detect in a directory if an element is a file or a subdirectory.
// i cant detected properly if an element is a file ...
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stat() giving wrong information
I'm using a loop to print the information of each file in a directory to recreate the ls shell function as a C program. When comparing the information from the program to the correct information from ...
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How to handle os.stat() permission issue? (Python 2.7)
I'm trying to create a subdirectory if it doesn't already exist. Here is the relevant portion of my function (TMP is the constant "-InProg"):
def create_directories(parent, tmp_dir=""):
"""
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python ctime of a directory referenced by a symbolic link
we have a directory directory and a symlink pointing to it symlink -> directory. Symlink is updated periodically (recreated) but the directory is updated much less often.
Problem: find out what ...
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accessing dictionary-stats in Ansible
I want to take action on a folder, if its empty. So I try to use conditionals on folders-stats. The folders are created with a dictionary.
- name: Statistics of folder
stat: path=/srv/svn/{{ ...
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Recursive listing of directories and files C
My C code for recursively listing directories and files get executed multiple times. I am not sure how to fix it and why it keeps happening... It is not infinite its just like 10 times shows the ...
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My ls -R doesn't work
Having issues with my ls -R implemented in C. When I run the program with command ./myls -R nothing displays, all blank:(Help needed.
int print_Recursive(char *dirname)
{
char fbuf [256];
DIR *dir;
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Viewing attributes of a file with stat (C)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
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stat() doesn't work on parent directory
I'm trying to code the ls command in C, but stat() refuse to open any other directory.
~/Desktop/ls$ cat bug.c
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#...
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Passing a dir as argument and show its last modified date
OK, so I was thinking of a program that displays my folder's or file's last modified time; I succeeded doing that, but I passed only the path as argument.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h&...
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C struct stat info not updating in a loop, giving ridiculous modification date
For one part of a code, I need to save both the name and the stats (user ID, group ID, modification time, permissions, etc.) of every file in a given directory into an array of self-defined structs. ...
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stat function returns empty struct [duplicate]
studentsDir = opendir(lineValues);
while ((entry = readdir(studentsDir)) != NULL) {
stat(path, &dirData);
if (S_ISDIR(dirData.st_mode) && (entry->d_name[0] != '.')
&...
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list directory and display details of each file. owner, octal permissions and filename using c
I'm trying to create a method that will do some system calls. It should display the owner of and octal code of each file. but somehow I cant get going. It displays the logged in user name as owner of ...
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C programming: How to get directory name?
I'm writing a code for printing out the path from root to current directory or referred directory, using recursive function. but I can't get the directory name, only get ..
Problem happened among base ...
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ERROR: stat: No Such File Or Directory, opendir() and stat() in C programming
Hey and thanks for reading.
I am making a program which takes 1 argument (directory) and reads all the files in the directory used opendir()/readdir(), and displays the file type (reg, link, ...
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Get a sorted list of folders based on modification date
I am trying to figure out how to apply a Python function to the oldest 50% of the sub-folders inside my parent directory.
For instance, if I have 12 folders inside a directory called foo, I'd ...
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How to get total size of a folder in C with recursivity?
All the folders have the size 4096 B.
How do I get the total size of a folder with all the file size inside?
For example:
> Dir1 (4096)
> -- File1.txt (100)
> -- Dir 2 (4096)
> ---- ...
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How to hide . and .. folders in C?
I'm trying to list all folders and all files of a folder with the language C.
This is the following code:
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <sys/...
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reading directories in C 2.0 stat error
I want to list the archives in a directory, and it works. The problem is if I am in "." and i want to list te files inside "./hello" since ".", (ls -l hello) for example. The problem is that I dont ...
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Perl directory exists equivalent of -e
-e File exists.
is there one for directory exists?
because i didnt see it on http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X.html
Or what would be a best way to test it?
next unless (-e $dir . "/dirname"); ...
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List files and their info using stat
I am programming an ftp server using c++ and I need to be able to get all info about files in form of :
sent: drwxr-xr-x 1000 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 May 16 11:44 Package-Debug.bash
so I can send it to ...
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Problem reading directories in C
I am writing a simple C program that receives a directory as an argument and displays the files in this directory and also his subdirectories. I wrote a "recursive" function for doing that. But for an ...
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How can I get the last modified time of a directory in Perl on Windows?
In Perl (on Windows) how do I determine the last modified time of a directory?
Note:
opendir my($dirHandle), "$path";
my $modtime = (stat($dirHandle))[9];
results in the following error:
The ...
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List regular files only (without directory) problem
Do you know why certain files are not listed by this program, even if they are "regular"?:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/stat.h&...
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