[GRASS-dev] r.colors: rules file list unsorted

[Hamish]

Paul Kelly wrote:
> What about a library function that does the same thing as system("ls") or 
> system("ls -C"). I can think of several places where it would be useful. 
> It could accept the directory as an argument, also the stream to output 
> too (e.g. stdout or stderr) and perhaps a flag to do a column-wise listing 
> (a la "ls -C"). I think this would be the hardest part to do; not sure how 
> ls does it - unless there is something easy we could do with format 
> conversion strings?


see-
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/17252/focus=17271
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/17252/focus=17267
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/17443
 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/16041/focus=16223

[yes, please; system("ls") isn't portable]


Hamish