Homework 8, Let's Climb a Tree

This homework is worth 15 points.

Goals

When you finish this homework you should:

Demonstrated your ability to use *stat
Demonstrated your ability to experiment and learn a new system command.

Assignment

Please do problem 18-7 page 373.

You program should be called treestat and should process all directories passed in as arguments. If no argument is present then the current directory should be the starting point.

For each directory specified on the command line your program should produce the following report

The root directory name
For each type of file encountered, sorted alphabetically
- The file type (Block, Char, Dir, Pipe, Reg, Socket, Symlnk)
- A tab
- The number of this type of file encountered, with a field width of 10
- A tab
- The percent of this type of file, as a percent rounded properly with no decimal places.
- A percent sign.

An example might be

%  treestat /home
/home	
	Block	         0	 0%
	Char		 0	 0%
	Dir	       100       9%
	Pipe		 2       0%
	Reg	      1000      90%
	Socket		 1       0%
	Symlnk	         8       0%

Please note, you should not process the special files . or ..

When you are finished email a compressed tar file containing your code, a Makefile and a README file to your instructor. Please do not include executable or object files in your submission.