List Files in a Directory

The filesystem library provides a directory_entry class with directory-related information about a given path. We can use this to create useful directory listings.

How to do it

In this recipe, we create a directory listing utility A directory listing utility is a software tool or command-line program that displays the contents of a directory, providing information about files and subdirectories within the specified directory. using the information in the directory_entry class:
• We start with our namespace alias and formatter specialization for displaying path objects: