How does one use qsort to sort a char containing pathnames/files based on their bytes?

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I basically wrote a code in which I take two command line arguments one being the type of file that I want to search in my directory and they other being the amount I want(which is not implemented yet, but I can fix that)
The code is like so:



#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define sizeFileName 500
#define filesMax 5000

int cmpfunc( const void *a, const void *b)
return *(char*)a + *(char*)b;


int main( int argc, char ** argv)
FILE * fp = popen( "find . -type f", "r");
char * type = argv[1];
char * extension = ".";

char* tExtension;
tExtension = malloc(strlen(type)+1+4);
strcpy(tExtension, extension);
strcat(tExtension, type);
// printf("%sn",tExtension);

int amount = atoi(argv[2]);
//printf("%dn",amount);

char buff[sizeFileName];
int nFiles = 0;
char * files[filesMax];
while(fgets(buff,sizeFileName,fp))
int leng = strlen(buff) - 1;
if (strncmp(buff + leng - 4, tExtension, 4) == 0)
files[nFiles] = strndup(buff,leng);
//printf("t%sn", files[nFiles]);
nFiles ++;


fclose(fp);
printf("Found %d filesn", nFiles);

long long totalBytes = 0;
struct stat st;

// sorting based on byte size from greatest to least
qsort(files, (size_t) strlen(files), (size_t) sizeof(char), cmpfunc);

for(int i = 0;i< nFiles; i ++)
if(0!= stat(files[i],&st))
perror("stat failed:");
exit(-1);

totalBytes += st.st_size;
printf("%s : %ldn",files[i],st.st_size);

printf("Total size: %lldn", totalBytes);
// clean up
for(int i = 0; i < nFiles ; i ++ )
free(files[i]);

return 0;



So far I have every section set up properly, upon running the code say $./find ini 5, it would print out all the ini files followed by their byte size(it's currently ignore the 5). However, for the qsort(), I'm not exactly sure how I would sort the contents of char * files as while it holds the pathnames, I had to use stat to get the byte sizes, how would I print out a sorted version of my print statements featuring the first statement being the most bytes and finishes at the least bytes?










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    I basically wrote a code in which I take two command line arguments one being the type of file that I want to search in my directory and they other being the amount I want(which is not implemented yet, but I can fix that)
    The code is like so:



    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/stat.h>
    #include <unistd.h>

    #define sizeFileName 500
    #define filesMax 5000

    int cmpfunc( const void *a, const void *b)
    return *(char*)a + *(char*)b;


    int main( int argc, char ** argv)
    FILE * fp = popen( "find . -type f", "r");
    char * type = argv[1];
    char * extension = ".";

    char* tExtension;
    tExtension = malloc(strlen(type)+1+4);
    strcpy(tExtension, extension);
    strcat(tExtension, type);
    // printf("%sn",tExtension);

    int amount = atoi(argv[2]);
    //printf("%dn",amount);

    char buff[sizeFileName];
    int nFiles = 0;
    char * files[filesMax];
    while(fgets(buff,sizeFileName,fp))
    int leng = strlen(buff) - 1;
    if (strncmp(buff + leng - 4, tExtension, 4) == 0)
    files[nFiles] = strndup(buff,leng);
    //printf("t%sn", files[nFiles]);
    nFiles ++;


    fclose(fp);
    printf("Found %d filesn", nFiles);

    long long totalBytes = 0;
    struct stat st;

    // sorting based on byte size from greatest to least
    qsort(files, (size_t) strlen(files), (size_t) sizeof(char), cmpfunc);

    for(int i = 0;i< nFiles; i ++)
    if(0!= stat(files[i],&st))
    perror("stat failed:");
    exit(-1);

    totalBytes += st.st_size;
    printf("%s : %ldn",files[i],st.st_size);

    printf("Total size: %lldn", totalBytes);
    // clean up
    for(int i = 0; i < nFiles ; i ++ )
    free(files[i]);

    return 0;



    So far I have every section set up properly, upon running the code say $./find ini 5, it would print out all the ini files followed by their byte size(it's currently ignore the 5). However, for the qsort(), I'm not exactly sure how I would sort the contents of char * files as while it holds the pathnames, I had to use stat to get the byte sizes, how would I print out a sorted version of my print statements featuring the first statement being the most bytes and finishes at the least bytes?










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      I basically wrote a code in which I take two command line arguments one being the type of file that I want to search in my directory and they other being the amount I want(which is not implemented yet, but I can fix that)
      The code is like so:



      #include <stdio.h>
      #include <stdlib.h>
      #include <string.h>
      #include <sys/types.h>
      #include <sys/stat.h>
      #include <unistd.h>

      #define sizeFileName 500
      #define filesMax 5000

      int cmpfunc( const void *a, const void *b)
      return *(char*)a + *(char*)b;


      int main( int argc, char ** argv)
      FILE * fp = popen( "find . -type f", "r");
      char * type = argv[1];
      char * extension = ".";

      char* tExtension;
      tExtension = malloc(strlen(type)+1+4);
      strcpy(tExtension, extension);
      strcat(tExtension, type);
      // printf("%sn",tExtension);

      int amount = atoi(argv[2]);
      //printf("%dn",amount);

      char buff[sizeFileName];
      int nFiles = 0;
      char * files[filesMax];
      while(fgets(buff,sizeFileName,fp))
      int leng = strlen(buff) - 1;
      if (strncmp(buff + leng - 4, tExtension, 4) == 0)
      files[nFiles] = strndup(buff,leng);
      //printf("t%sn", files[nFiles]);
      nFiles ++;


      fclose(fp);
      printf("Found %d filesn", nFiles);

      long long totalBytes = 0;
      struct stat st;

      // sorting based on byte size from greatest to least
      qsort(files, (size_t) strlen(files), (size_t) sizeof(char), cmpfunc);

      for(int i = 0;i< nFiles; i ++)
      if(0!= stat(files[i],&st))
      perror("stat failed:");
      exit(-1);

      totalBytes += st.st_size;
      printf("%s : %ldn",files[i],st.st_size);

      printf("Total size: %lldn", totalBytes);
      // clean up
      for(int i = 0; i < nFiles ; i ++ )
      free(files[i]);

      return 0;



      So far I have every section set up properly, upon running the code say $./find ini 5, it would print out all the ini files followed by their byte size(it's currently ignore the 5). However, for the qsort(), I'm not exactly sure how I would sort the contents of char * files as while it holds the pathnames, I had to use stat to get the byte sizes, how would I print out a sorted version of my print statements featuring the first statement being the most bytes and finishes at the least bytes?










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      I basically wrote a code in which I take two command line arguments one being the type of file that I want to search in my directory and they other being the amount I want(which is not implemented yet, but I can fix that)
      The code is like so:



      #include <stdio.h>
      #include <stdlib.h>
      #include <string.h>
      #include <sys/types.h>
      #include <sys/stat.h>
      #include <unistd.h>

      #define sizeFileName 500
      #define filesMax 5000

      int cmpfunc( const void *a, const void *b)
      return *(char*)a + *(char*)b;


      int main( int argc, char ** argv)
      FILE * fp = popen( "find . -type f", "r");
      char * type = argv[1];
      char * extension = ".";

      char* tExtension;
      tExtension = malloc(strlen(type)+1+4);
      strcpy(tExtension, extension);
      strcat(tExtension, type);
      // printf("%sn",tExtension);

      int amount = atoi(argv[2]);
      //printf("%dn",amount);

      char buff[sizeFileName];
      int nFiles = 0;
      char * files[filesMax];
      while(fgets(buff,sizeFileName,fp))
      int leng = strlen(buff) - 1;
      if (strncmp(buff + leng - 4, tExtension, 4) == 0)
      files[nFiles] = strndup(buff,leng);
      //printf("t%sn", files[nFiles]);
      nFiles ++;


      fclose(fp);
      printf("Found %d filesn", nFiles);

      long long totalBytes = 0;
      struct stat st;

      // sorting based on byte size from greatest to least
      qsort(files, (size_t) strlen(files), (size_t) sizeof(char), cmpfunc);

      for(int i = 0;i< nFiles; i ++)
      if(0!= stat(files[i],&st))
      perror("stat failed:");
      exit(-1);

      totalBytes += st.st_size;
      printf("%s : %ldn",files[i],st.st_size);

      printf("Total size: %lldn", totalBytes);
      // clean up
      for(int i = 0; i < nFiles ; i ++ )
      free(files[i]);

      return 0;



      So far I have every section set up properly, upon running the code say $./find ini 5, it would print out all the ini files followed by their byte size(it's currently ignore the 5). However, for the qsort(), I'm not exactly sure how I would sort the contents of char * files as while it holds the pathnames, I had to use stat to get the byte sizes, how would I print out a sorted version of my print statements featuring the first statement being the most bytes and finishes at the least bytes?







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