dirent.h - Directory Entries

The dirent.h header defines functions for directory stream operations.

Facilities Overview

Facility Category	Key Symbols	Description
Streams	opendir, readdir, closedir	Opening and reading directory contents.
Positioning	rewinddir, seekdir, telldir	Navigating directory streams.

An opaque type representing a directory stream.

Structure containing information about a directory entry.

DIR *opendir(const char *name)

Opens a directory stream.

Example:

#include <dirent.h>

int main(void) {
    DIR *d = opendir(".");
    if (d) closedir(d);
    return 0;
}

struct dirent *readdir(DIR *dirp)

int closedir(DIR *dirp)