How to properly use scandir() in c?

Question

I am trying to store list of files in a char** variable.

scandir() finishes properly but I get a segmentation fault when trying to print the char**.

Here\'s the co

Answer 1

This is an old question, but since I came upon it and it did not solve my question as effectively as the man page did, I am copying a code snippet from the man page as a new answer for the future.

  #include 

   int
   main(void)
   {
       struct dirent **namelist;
       int n;

       n = scandir(".", &namelist, NULL, alphasort);
       if (n < 0)
           perror("scandir");
       else {
           while (n--) {
               printf("%s\n", namelist[n]->d_name);
               free(namelist[n]);
           }
           free(namelist);
       }
   }