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wildcard characters for ls

Hi!

I am trying to implement linux "ls" command just with system calls and until now I have succeded in listing a directory (with a given full path )and taking information about the files in there by opendir,readdir,stat system calls.But I also want to handle the wildcard characters '*' and '?' in the search pattern.Namely select only files which match the pattern containing these wildcards.Is there an easy way in handling that?Thank you:)

I think you're going to have to tell us what language you are programming in. A little more detail is always useful in getting an answer.

I am programming in c++.Thanks again.

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Originally Posted by basak (Post 2909205)

But I also want to handle the wildcard characters '*' and '?' in the search pattern.Namely select only files which match the pattern containing these wildcards.

IIRC, most wildcard/globbing happens in the shell prior to executing ls (or any executable for that matter). For this, the shell uses the POSIX-specified glob() and wordexp().

Utilities like ls, however, may need to implement filename matching for correct unix-path expansion. In this case, one might use the POSIX-specified fnmatch().