September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
792 pages
19h 42m
English
“So, you’re the UNIX guru.” At the time, Randy was still stupid enough to be flattered by this attention, when he should have recognized them as bone-chilling words.—Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

This chapter teaches you how to use the stdlib’s Filesystem library to perform operations on filesystems, such as manipulating and inspecting files, enumerating directories, and interoperating with file streams.
The stdlib and Boost contain Filesystem libraries. The stdlib’s Filesystem library grew out of Boost’s, and accordingly they’re largely interchangeable. This chapter focuses on the stdlib implementation. If you’re interested in ...
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