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How can I search for a file within a directory and its sub-directories in C?
I’m not allowed to use find and I must use opendir , readdir and stat.
I want to perform something like the command ls -ln if the file indeed exists.
For traversing the directories, you will need: opendir(3), readdir(3), and closedir(3).
For checking the type of file (to see if it’s a directory and if you should recursively search within it) you will need stat(2).
You will want to check
to see if the file is a directory. See <sys/stat.h> for more information.