How to change dir when full path is not known in linux using c++?

from your description i would assume that there normally is only one process folder below your home directory. that would mean that the folders

   input/
   input/1234/
   input/1234/5678/
   input/1234/5678/abcd/

all only have exactly one subfolder.

if that is true the the search for the process folder can be done in a simple loop and must not done recursively.

note, if the assumption is not true - for example because an older path to a process folder still exists - you would get problems to decide which of two or more process subfolders is the right one.

Sara

Thanks for help both of you. I am using below code as of now. I will test and will see if that actually meets the user requiremets. I am actually storing all pathts of all directories under my app directory and then finding for "process" element or any other element. It will be only duering testing I will know if there are more than 1 "process" folders under my app directory -

populatePaths(string & path) {

    string strDir;
    string strFullPath;

    char currDir[FILENAME_MAX];
    if (GetCurrentDir(currDir, sizeof(currDir))) {
        currDir[sizeof(currDir) - 1] = '\0';
        cout << "Current Dir is " << currDir << endl;
    }


    DIR* dir = opendir(path.c_str());

    if(dir == 0) {
        cout << "Can not open directory '" << path << "'\n";
        return 0;
    }

    struct dirent *d;
    while( (d = readdir(dir)) != 0) {
        if( d->d_type == DT_DIR && strcmp(d->d_name,".") != 0 &&
           strcmp(d->d_name,"..") != 0) {

           strFullPath = path + "/" + d->d_name;
           cout << "Directory ---> " << d->d_name  << " Path ------> " << strFullPath.c_str() << endl;
           strDir = d->d_name;
           myMap.insert(pair<string, string>(strDir, strFullPath));
           populatePaths(strFullPath);
        }
    }

    closedir(dir);
    return 1;
}

Hi mumbaikar,

You may be able to get better control of the entire process if you'll run the program that is "invoked internally by my program" from a thread that is part of this program.  Since both processes will share memory, the program that creates the folders may be able to write the path into shared memory.


Kent

the code you posted probably will not do what you want when there are subfolders which have same name, for example a second 'abcd' in another branch.

instead of a map with key is folder name you better use a normal vector<string> and pass the folder name you were searching for, in example 'process', as second argument to PopulatePath. then the PopulatePath could add only those complete paths to result vector which have the name 'process'.

Sara

 

by the way, adding to a std::map more easily is like

  myMap[strDir] =  strFullPath;

that would behave different for duplicate keys. while your insert would do nothing in case the strDir already exists, the above would overwrite the value.

both variants are logical flaws, though.

Sara

@kdo:
The program that I run internally is developed by some other team and only binary executable is available to me. I can not make it write path anywhere in shared memory. But you were right, if we had that control, things would have been easier.

@sarabande:
the additional requirements of storing paths of more keywords made me write code like above. So apart from "process", I need to look for few more subfolders like "docs", "config" etc. You are right that if folder name repeats then above code will fail. Fortunately, in current situation there will be only one folder will be created with name "process", "docs" or "config".

Thanks

I was able to search and collect full path as I wanted based on these responses. Great help. Appreciate that.