Re: [Bug-apl] Request: lib_file_io additions

[David Lamkins]

Agreed. As noted, I had been using fileio's popen() to run a shell command for ls. It's a bit more work, but it's portable. The main difficulty of popen is that it requires a bit of effort to detect failure of the shell command, given that there's only one stream and no exit status.

It is nice (not to mention very useful) to have a reasonably complete set of basic file operations. Thanks for that!

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Juergen Sauermann <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I think we have to draw the border between FILE_IO and convenience functions somewhere.
Otherwise we would end up with the entire libc accessible via FILE_IO.

And, remember, we have this nice language called APL to do such things.

/// Jürgen

On 07/08/2014 05:56 AM, David B. Lamkins wrote:

It looks like glob() subsumes the function of readdir(). There are some
nasty details with allocated results, too...

You could, however, combine fnmatch() with readdir().

http://linux.die.net/man/3/fnmatch

On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 11:44 +0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote:

How about adding support for a dyadic form where the left-side
argument is a glob pattern to be used when matching the file names?


http://linux.die.net/man/3/glob



Regards,
Elias

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