Cocoa in a Nutshell

Name

NSFileManager — Mac OS X 10.0

Synopsis

This class provides an interface that clients can use to interact with the filesystem. This provides all of the standard file and directory manipulation facilities for copying, moving, changing working directories, and more.

@interface NSFileManager : NSObject

// Class Methods

+ (NSFileManager *)defaultManager;

// Instance Methods

- (BOOL)changeCurrentDirectoryPath:(NSString *)path;

- (BOOL)changeFileAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes atPath:(NSString *)path;

- (NSArray *)componentsToDisplayForPath:(NSString *)path;

- (NSData *)contentsAtPath:(NSString *)path;

- (BOOL)contentsEqualAtPath:(NSString *)path1 andPath:(NSString *)path2;

- (BOOL)copyPath:(NSString *)src toPath:(NSString *)dest handler:(id)handler;

- (BOOL)createDirectoryAtPath:(NSString *)path attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributes;

- (BOOL)createFileAtPath:(NSString *)path contents:(NSData *)data attributes:(NSDictionary *)attr;

- (BOOL)createSymbolicLinkAtPath:(NSString *)path pathContent:(NSString *)otherpath;

- (NSString *)currentDirectoryPath;

- (NSArray *)directoryContentsAtPath:(NSString *)path;

- (NSString *)displayNameAtPath:(NSString *)path;

- (NSDirectoryEnumerator *)enumeratorAtPath:(NSString *)path;

- (NSDictionary *)fileAttributesAtPath:(NSString *)path traverseLink:(BOOL)yorn;

- (BOOL)fileExistsAtPath:(NSString *)path;