File System interface defines the high-level interface to the file system classes. You use these classes to manage files, directories, and volumes.
After reading this chapter, you should:
- Understand how the File System interface accesses file system entities
- Be able to create and delete file system entities and access them using pathnames
- Be able to access data within a file
- Be able to retrieve and modify properties of a file system entity
- Be able to move and copy files
- Be able to iterate through files on a directory or volume
- Understand the exception handling techniques that this interface uses
- Understanding the File System interface
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- File system classes
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- Using file system entities and pathnames
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- Accessing data
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- File system properties
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- Moving and copying file system instances
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- Iterating through directories and volumes
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- Exception handling
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