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How can we traverse through all the files in a folder and the subfolders?

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   geek4u
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   Posted 1 year ago #
   
   

   How can we traverse through all the files in a folder and the subfolders. What system calls should be used?

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   Misraji
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   
   

   Try the following command:
   strace ls -R &> ls.strace && cat ls.strace

   It gives the list of system calls made by ls command.
   Some of them are:
   open, read, close, mmap, fstat, mprotect, access,

   Lots of tertiary ones too.

   ~Ashish

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