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READDIR(3am)               GNU Awk Extension Modules              READDIR(3am)
NAME
       readdir - directory input parser for gawk
SYNOPSIS
       @load "readdir"
DESCRIPTION
       The readdir extension adds an input parser for directories.
       When this extension is in use, instead of skipping directories named on
       the command line (or with getline), they  are  read,  with  each  entry
       returned as a record.
       The record consists of three fields. The first two are the inode number
       and the filename, separated by a forward slash character.   On  systems
       where  the  directory  entry  contains  the file type, the record has a
       third field which is a single letter indicating the type of the file: f
       for  file,  d  for  directory,  b for a block device, c for a character
       device, p for a FIFO, l for a symbolic link, s  for  a  socket,  and  u
       (unknown) for anything else.
       On systems without the file type information, the third field is always
       u.
NOTES
       On GNU/Linux systems, there are  filesystems  that  don't  support  the
       d_type  entry  (see readdir(3)), and so the file type is always u.  You
       can use the filefuncs extension to call stat() in order to get  correct
       type information.
EXAMPLE
       @load "readdir"
       ...
       BEGIN { FS = "/" }
       { print "file name is", $2 }
SEE ALSO
       GAWK:   Effective   AWK   Programming,   filefuncs(3am),  fnmatch(3am),
       fork(3am), inplace(3am),  ordchr(3am),  readfile(3am),  revoutput(3am),
       rwarray(3am), time(3am).
       opendir(3), readdir(3), stat(2).
AUTHOR
       Arnold Robbins, arnold AT skeeve.com.
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Free Software Foundation          Jan 15 2013                     READDIR(3am)