In article <44***********************@dreader18.news.xs4all.n l>,
Ico <us****@zevv.nl> wrote:
is there any system call in unix that will search for a file in the
filesystem. someting like the find utility.
A newsgroup discussing unix would probably be a better place to ask this
question. iirc, there is no such function call in any of the unixes I
know, but there might be in other flavours.
Some unixes have a function "ftw" or functions with names beginning
"fts" that do this sort of thing. According to one manual page, "the
fts utility is expected to be included in a future IEEE Std
1003.1-1988 (POSIX.1) revision", so you might look for a Posix-related
group or web site.
-- Richard