Re: READDIR -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: READDIR
From: Mark S Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:48:26 -0500
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Hi, Audrey:

In addition to "." and ".." (the short-cut symbolic links to the current and parent directory), in Unix systems, by convention, if the file name begins with a ".", it is considered to be a "hidden" file, so perhaps you might not want to process those files?

In that case, you could just check if the first character of the name is a "." and if so, skip that file, and that will also take care of "." and ".." too.

HTH,

Mark S.Waterbury

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