FreeBSD Manual Pages
GLOB(3) Linux Programmer's Manual GLOB(3) NAME glob, globfree - find pathnames matching a pattern, free memory from glob() SYNOPSIS #include <glob.h> int glob(const char *pattern, int flags, int errfunc(const char *epath, int eerrno), glob_t *pglob); void globfree(glob_t *pglob); DESCRIPTION The glob() function searches for all the pathnames matching pattern ac- cording to the rules used by the shell (see glob(7)). No tilde expan- sion or parameter substitution is done; if you want these, use word- exp(3). The globfree() function frees the dynamically allocated storage from an earlier call to glob(). The results of a glob() call are stored in the structure pointed to by pglob, which is a glob_t which is declared in <glob.h> and includes the following elements defined by POSIX.2 (more may be present as an exten- sion): typedef struct { size_t gl_pathc; /* Count of paths matched so far */ char **gl_pathv; /* List of matched pathnames. */ size_t gl_offs; /* Slots to reserve in `gl_pathv'. */ } glob_t; Results are stored in dynamically allocated storage. The parameter flags is made up of bitwise OR of zero or more the fol- lowing symbolic constants, which modify the of behaviour of glob(): GLOB_ERR which means to return upon read error (because a directory does not have read permission, for example), GLOB_MARK which means to append a slash to each path which corresponds to a directory, GLOB_NOSORT which means don't sort the returned pathnames (they are by de- fault), GLOB_DOOFFS which means that pglob-_gl_offs slots will be reserved at the beginning of the list of strings in pglob-_pathv, GLOB_NOCHECK which means that, if no pattern matches, to return the original pattern, GLOB_APPEND which means to append to the results of a previous call. Do not set this flag on the first invocation of glob(). GLOB_NOESCAPE which means that meta characters cannot be quoted by back- slashes. The flags may also include some of the following, which are GNU exten- sions and not defined by POSIX.2: GLOB_PERIOD which means that a leading period can be matched by meta charac- ters, GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC which means that alternative functions pglob-_gl_closedir, pglob-_gl_readdir, pglob-_gl_opendir, pglob-_gl_lstat, and pglob-_gl_stat are used for file system access instead of the normal library functions, GLOB_BRACE which means that csh(1) style brace expresions {a,b} are ex- panded, GLOB_NOMAGIC which means that the pattern is returned if it contains no metacharacters, GLOB_TILDE which means that tilde expansion is carried out, and GLOB_ONLYDIR which means that only directories are matched. If errfunc is not NULL, it will be called in case of an error with the arguments epath, a pointer to the path which failed, and eerrno, the value of errno as returned from one of the calls to opendir(), read- dir(), or stat(). If errfunc returns non-zero, or if GLOB_ERR is set, glob() will terminate after the call to errfunc. Upon successful return, pglob-_gl_pathc contains the number of matched pathnames and pglob-_gl_pathv a pointer to the list of matched path- names. The first pointer after the last pathname is NULL. It is possible to call glob() several times. In that case, the GLOB_APPEND flag has to be set in flags on the second and later invoca- tions. As a GNU extension, pglob-_gl_flags is set to the flags specified, ored with GLOB_MAGCHAR if any metacharacters were found. RETURN VALUE On successful completion, glob() returns zero. Other possible returns are: GLOB_NOSPACE for running out of memory, GLOB_ABORTED for a read error, and GLOB_NOMATCH for no found matches. EXAMPLES One example of use is the following code, which simulates typing ls -l *.c ../*.c in the shell. glob_t globbuf; globbuf.gl_offs = 2; glob("*.c", GLOB_DOOFFS, NULL, &globbuf); glob("../*.c", GLOB_DOOFFS | GLOB_APPEND, NULL, &globbuf); globbuf.gl_pathv[0] = "ls"; globbuf.gl_pathv[1] = "-l"; execvp("ls", &globbuf.gl_pathv[0]); CONFORMING TO POSIX.2 BUGS The glob() function may fail due to failure of underlying function calls, such as malloc() or opendir(). These will store their error code in errno. NOTES The structure elements gl_pathc and gl_offs are declared as size_t in glibc 2.1, as they should according to POSIX.2, but are declared as int in libc4, libc5 and glibc 2.0. SEE ALSO ls(1), sh(1), stat(2), exec(3), malloc(3), opendir(3), readdir(3), wordexp(3), glob(7) GNU 1999-09-12 GLOB(3)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | EXAMPLES | CONFORMING TO | BUGS | NOTES | SEE ALSO
Want to link to this manual page? Use this URL:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=glob&sektion=3&manpath=Red+Hat+9>