Is there a C function call in linux that helps me get all the files in the directories of $PATH as a list or an array? Or should we parse through the $PATH variable manually to get them?
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Is there a C function call in linux that helps me get all the files in the directories of $PATH as a list or an array? Or should we parse through the $PATH variable manually to get them?
returns a
:-delimited list of the directories in PATH. To translate to an array, you can usestrtokto split the string.