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splinterdl
splinterdl

Reputation: 1

executing /bin/ls in a C program and cannot access directories with ~ in path

I want to implement some pipes and reproduce a ls |sort |grep command so i started with the ls part and for testreasons i wanted to print out the conclusion from bin/ls part but i cant access upper directories

execl("/bin/ls", "ls", "-lR", directy, NULL);

I want to access for example ~/Desktop which works fine from the shell but not from the program itself. I tried out multiple different versions and can access a subdirectory of hte current folder

Upvotes: 0

Views: 316

Answers (1)

August Karlstrom
August Karlstrom

Reputation: 11377

As pointed out by Ian Abbott, expansion of ~ is a feature of the shell program. Instead you can use the getenv function and read the HOME environment variable so you can construct the string $HOME/Desktop.

Upvotes: 3

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