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Asked: 2026-06-09T17:26:36+00:00

My goal is to build a program that renames all files in the current

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My goal is to build a program that renames all files in the current working directory so they don’t have any spaces, any special characters or any accented characters (for example É would become E). I’m planning on using int rename(const char *oldname, const char *newname); . My problem is how do I get the files in the current working directory? I would like to have the executable I’m creating put in a folder with a files with bad names and run it and the files all be renamed.

A platform independent solution would be preferable, otherwise I’m using Windows 7 Enterprise 32bit.

This question isn’t a duplicate because I don’t know the path for opendir ("c:\\src\\"); it’s whatever directory the program is being executed from.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Here’s a sample code to do that:

    http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/869208-list-files-directory

    In essence you utilize these APIs: FindFirstFile and FindNextFile

    For cross-platform solution see findfirst() and findnext()

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