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.

Outpu

Answer 1

I was able to use d_type on ubuntu:

    switch (readDir->d_type)
    {
    case DT_DIR:
        printf("Dir: %s\n", readDir->d_name);
        break;
    case DT_REG:
        printf("File: %s\n", readDir->d_name);
        break;
    default:
        printf("Other: %s\n", readDir->d_name);
    }

The list of entry types can be found in dirent.h, (this could be different for os other than ubuntu):

dirent.h

#define DT_UNKNOWN       0
#define DT_FIFO          1
#define DT_CHR           2
#define DT_DIR           4
#define DT_BLK           6
#define DT_REG           8
#define DT_LNK          10
#define DT_SOCK         12
#define DT_WHT          14