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Summary

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What's included?

• std::filesystem::path
  • explicit path type, vs. std::string
  • manipulation of paths
• File and Directory access
  • copy, rename, remove, ...
  • exits, type, status, size, ...
  • directory iteration

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What's missing?

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Temporary Files and Directories

• Atomically create a unique file name or directory
• Like the Linux command tempfile or mktemp
• or tmpfile() from <stdio.h> or mkstemp(...) from <stdlib.h>

~$ tempfile
/tmp/filevyLcbf
~$ mktemp -d
/tmp/tmp.Mtt52jXKCo
~$ ls -ld /tmp/filevyLcbf /tmp/tmp.Mtt52jXKCo
-rw------- 1 finn finn    0 Feb 11 22:22 /tmp/filevyLcbf
drwx------ 2 finn finn 4096 Feb 11 22:23 /tmp/tmp.Mtt52jXKCo

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What's more?

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More Documentation

• http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/filesystem/path
• http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_66_0/libs/filesystem/doc/reference.html

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