Simple glob in C++ on unix system?
I have that in my gist. I created a stl wrapper around glob so that it returns vector of string and take care of freeing glob result. Not exactly very efficient but this code is a little more readable and some would say easier to use.
#include <glob.h> // glob(), globfree()
#include <string.h> // memset()
#include <vector>
#include <stdexcept>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
std::vector<std::string> glob(const std::string& pattern) {
using namespace std;
// glob struct resides on the stack
glob_t glob_result;
memset(&glob_result, 0, sizeof(glob_result));
// do the glob operation
int return_value = glob(pattern.c_str(), GLOB_TILDE, NULL, &glob_result);
if(return_value != 0) {
globfree(&glob_result);
stringstream ss;
ss << "glob() failed with return_value " << return_value << endl;
throw std::runtime_error(ss.str());
}
// collect all the filenames into a std::list<std::string>
vector<string> filenames;
for(size_t i = 0; i < glob_result.gl_pathc; ++i) {
filenames.push_back(string(glob_result.gl_pathv[i]));
}
// cleanup
globfree(&glob_result);
// done
return filenames;
}
I wrote a simple glob library for Windows & Linux (probably works on other *nixes as well) a while ago when I was bored, feel free to use it as you like.
Example usage:
#include <iostream>
#include "glob.h"
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
glob::Glob glob(argv[1]);
while (glob) {
std::cout << glob.GetFileName() << std::endl;
glob.Next();
}
}