FileUtils

Members

Static functions

access

int access(string filename, int mode)

A wrapper for the POSIX access() function. This function is used to test a pathname for one or several of read, write or execute permissions, or just existence.

chdir

int chdir(string path)

A wrapper for the POSIX chdir() function. The function changes the current directory of the process to @path.

close

bool close(int fd)

This wraps the close() call; in case of error, %errno will be preserved, but the error will also be stored as a #GError in @error.

fileErrorFromErrno

GFileError fileErrorFromErrno(int errNo)

Gets a #GFileError constant based on the passed-in @err_no.

fileErrorQuark

GQuark fileErrorQuark()

fileGetContents

bool fileGetContents(string filename, string contents)

Reads an entire file into allocated memory, with good error checking.

fileOpenTmp

int fileOpenTmp(string tmpl, string nameUsed)

Opens a file for writing in the preferred directory for temporary files (as returned by g_get_tmp_dir()).

fileReadLink

string fileReadLink(string filename)

Reads the contents of the symbolic link @filename like the POSIX readlink() function. The returned string is in the encoding used for filenames. Use g_filename_to_utf8() to convert it to UTF-8.

fileSetContents

bool fileSetContents(string filename, string contents)

Writes all of @contents to a file named @filename. This is a convenience wrapper around calling g_file_set_contents_full() with flags set to G_FILE_SET_CONTENTS_CONSISTENT | G_FILE_SET_CONTENTS_ONLY_EXISTING and mode set to 0666.

fileTest

bool fileTest(string filename, GFileTest test)

Returns %TRUE if any of the tests in the bitfield @test are %TRUE. For example, (G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS | G_FILE_TEST_IS_DIR) will return %TRUE if the file exists; the check whether it's a directory doesn't matter since the existence test is %TRUE. With the current set of available tests, there's no point passing in more than one test at a time.

mkdirWithParents

int mkdirWithParents(string pathname, int mode)

Create a directory if it doesn't already exist. Create intermediate parent directories as needed, too.

mkdtemp

string mkdtemp(string tmpl)

Creates a temporary directory. See the mkdtemp() documentation on most UNIX-like systems.

mkdtempFull

string mkdtempFull(string tmpl, int mode)

Creates a temporary directory. See the mkdtemp() documentation on most UNIX-like systems.

mkstemp

int mkstemp(string tmpl)

Opens a temporary file. See the mkstemp() documentation on most UNIX-like systems.

mkstempFull

int mkstempFull(string tmpl, int flags, int mode)

Opens a temporary file. See the mkstemp() documentation on most UNIX-like systems.

rmdir

int rmdir(string filename)

A wrapper for the POSIX rmdir() function. The rmdir() function deletes a directory from the filesystem.

unlink

int unlink(string filename)

A wrapper for the POSIX unlink() function. The unlink() function deletes a name from the filesystem. If this was the last link to the file and no processes have it opened, the diskspace occupied by the file is freed.

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