Checking if a dir. entry returned by readdir is a directory, link or file. dent->d_type isn't showing the type

Question

I am making a program which is run in a Linux shell, and accepts an argument (a directory), and displays all the files in the directory, along with their type.

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Answer 1

Print d_type as an integer like so:

printf("%d ", dent->d_type);

and you'll see meaningful values.