Implementing the ls -al command in C

Question

As a part of an assignment from one of my classes, I have to write a program in C to duplicate the results of the ls -al command. I have read up on the necessary materials but I

Answer 1

This is the final code I got to work for anyone interested. It prints the correct file sizes. Credit goes to asker and mux for answering, just putting the code together. Input I got this to work for is "./main ." .

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    DIR *mydir;
    struct dirent *myfile;
    struct stat mystat;

    char buf[512];
    mydir = opendir(argv[1]);
    while((myfile = readdir(mydir)) != NULL)
    {
        sprintf(buf, "%s/%s", argv[1], myfile->d_name);
        stat(buf, &mystat);
        printf("%zu",mystat.st_size);
        printf(" %s\n", myfile->d_name);
    }
    closedir(mydir);
}