READDIR(3am) GNU Awk Extension Modules READDIR(3am)
NAME
readdir - directory input parser for gawk
SYNOPSIS
@load "readdir"
DESCRIPTION
The readdir extension adds an input parser for directories.
When this extension is in use, instead of skipping directories named on
the command line (or with getline), they are read, with each entry re-
turned as a record.
The record consists of three fields. The first two are the inode number
and the filename, separated by a forward slash character. On systems
where the directory entry contains the file type, the record has a third
field which is a single letter indicating the type of the file: f for
file, d for directory, b for a block device, c for a character device, p
for a FIFO, l for a symbolic link, s for a socket.
On systems without the file type information, the extension falls back
to calling stat(2), in order to provide the information. Thus the third
field should never be u.
By default, if a directory cannot be opened (due to permission problems,
for example), gawk will exit. As with regular files, this situation can
be handled using a BEGINFILE rule that checks ERRNO and prints an error
or otherwise handles the problem.
EXAMPLE
@load "readdir"
...
BEGIN { FS = "/" }
{ print "file name is", $2 }
SEE ALSO
GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am),
fork(3am), inplace(3am), ordchr(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am),
rwarray(3am), time(3am).
opendir(3), readdir(3), stat(2).
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins, arnold@skeeve.com.
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