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From: netserv@mo.cc.swin.edu.au (Bob Schorer)
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Subject: Re: deleted huge directory
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:58:10 +1000 (EST)
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The 'ls' command fails because it needs to sort the entries
and must therefore read them into memory first.

'find' should work ok, or you can use the following small
program (if you want, you could add a call to the unlink
function to remove each file within the loop).

Bob Schorer

#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<sys/types.h>
#include	<errno.h>
#ifdef DIRENT
#include	<dirent.h>
#define	direct	dirent
#else
#include	<sys/dir.h>
#endif

main(argc, argv)
int	argc;
char	**argv;
{
	DIR		*fd;
	struct
	    direct	*cat;

	if (!(fd=opendir(*(argv+1)))) {
		printf("Directory not found\n");
		exit(0);
	}

	while ((cat=(struct direct*)readdir(fd)))
		printf("%s\n", cat->d_name);

	closedir(fd);

}