Question

I have the following code in C:

DIR *mydir = opendir("/");
struct dirent *entry = NULL;

while((entry = readdir(mydir)))
{
    printf("%s\n", entry->d_name);
    //printf("%i\n", entry->d_type);
}

closedir(mydir);

It works and shows the files/folders in the location, correctly.

However, I want to tell if it is a folder or a file. How can I do this? I tried with d_type (as you can see on the code) but no success.

Answer 1

Use stat():

struct stat st;
stat("nodename", &st);
int isDirectory = S_ISDIR(st.st_mode);