Chapter 12. Filesystem IO

Chapter 12. Filesystem I/O

Introduction

Recipe 12.1.  Creating, Copying, Moving, or Deleting a File

Recipe 12.2.  Manipulating File Attributes

Recipe 12.3.  Renaming a File

Recipe 12.4.  Determining Whether a File Exists

Recipe 12.5.  Choosing a Method of Opening a File or Stream for Reading and/or Writing

Recipe 12.6.  Accessing Part of a File Randomly

Recipe 12.7.  Outputting a Platform-Independent EOL Character

Recipe 12.8.  Creating, Writing to, and Reading from a File

Recipe 12.9.  Determining Whether a Directory Exists

Recipe 12.10.  Creating, Copying, Moving, or Deleting a Directory

Recipe 12.11.  Manipulating Directory Attributes

Recipe 12.12.  Renaming a Directory

Recipe 12.13.  Searching for Directories or Files Using Wildcards

Recipe 12.14.  Obtaining the Directory Tree

Recipe 12.15.  Parsing a Path

Recipe 12.16.  Parsing Paths in Environment Variables

Recipe 12.17.  Verifying a Path

Recipe 12.18.  Using a Temporary File in Your Application

Recipe 12.19.  Opening a File Stream with Just a File Handle

Recipe 12.20.  Writing to Multiple Output Files at One Time

Recipe 12.21.  Launching and Interacting with Console Utilities

Recipe 12.22.  Locking Subsections of a File

Recipe 12.23.  Watching the Filesystem for Specific Changes to One or More Files or Directories

Recipe 12.24.  Waiting for an Action to Occur in the Filesystem

Recipe 12.25.  Comparing Version Information of Two Executable Modules

Recipe 12.26.  Querying Information for All Drives on a System

Recipe 12.27.  Encrypting/Decrypting an Existing File

Recipe 12.28.  Compressing and Decompressing Your Files