10 Directory tree
Of all the programming tasks, I’m embarrassed to admit that I enjoy coding file utilities the most. The casual user is unaware of the mountain of information about files provided by the operating system. It’s highly detailed low-hanging fruit, eager for plucking. Plus, exploring files and directories opens your understanding of how computer storage works. Exploring this field may inspire you to write your own interesting file utilities. If it doesn’t, you can keep reading this chapter—your introduction to filesystems and storage.
The goal here is to create a directory tree program. The output shows subdirectories as they sit in the hierarchical filesystem. In addition to being exposed to the word hierarchical (which I can amazingly ...
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