Copies a directory recursively to the given destination. Does not follow symbolic links.

For directory contents, this has the same behavior as easyCopy and thus will ignore any file type that is not RegularFile, SymbolicLink or Directory.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• not atomic
• examines filetypes explicitly
• an explicit check throwDestinationInSource is carried out for the top directory for basic sanity, because otherwise we might end up with an infinite copy loop... however, this operation is not carried out recursively (because it's slow)

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source directory does not exist
• PermissionDenied if output directory is not writable
• PermissionDenied if source directory can't be opened
• InvalidArgument if source directory is wrong type (symlink)
• InvalidArgument if source directory is wrong type (regular file)
• AlreadyExists if destination already exists
• SameFile if source and destination are the same file (HPathIOException)
• DestinationInSource if destination is contained in source (HPathIOException)

Like copyDirRecursive except it overwrites contents of directories if any.

For directory contents, this has the same behavior as easyCopyOverwrite and thus will ignore any file type that is not RegularFile, SymbolicLink or Directory.

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source directory does not exist
• PermissionDenied if output directory is not writable
• PermissionDenied if source directory can't be opened
• InvalidArgument if source directory is wrong type (symlink)
• InvalidArgument if source directory is wrong type (regular file)
• SameFile if source and destination are the same file (HPathIOException)
• DestinationInSource if destination is contained in source (HPathIOException)

Recreate a symlink.

Throws:

• InvalidArgument if source file is wrong type (not a symlink)
• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• PermissionDenied if source directory cannot be opened
• AlreadyExists if destination file already exists
• SameFile if source and destination are the same file (HPathIOException)

Note: calls symlink

Copies the given regular file to the given destination. Neither follows symbolic links, nor accepts them. For "copying" symbolic links, use recreateSymlink instead.

Note that this is still sort of a low-level function and doesn't examine file types. For a more high-level version, use easyCopy instead.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• when used on CharacterDevice, reads the "contents" and copies them to a regular file, which might take indefinitely
• when used on BlockDevice, may either read the "contents" and copy them to a regular file (potentially hanging indefinitely) or may create a regular empty destination file
• when used on NamedPipe, will hang indefinitely

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source file does not exist
• NoSuchThing if source file is a a Socket
• PermissionDenied if output directory is not writable
• PermissionDenied if source directory can't be opened
• InvalidArgument if source file is wrong type (symlink or directory)
• AlreadyExists if destination already exists
• SameFile if source and destination are the same file (HPathIOException)

Note: calls sendfile and possibly read/write as fallback

Like copyFile except it overwrites the destination if it already exists.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• when used on CharacterDevice, reads the "contents" and copies them to a regular file, which might take indefinitely
• when used on BlockDevice, may either read the "contents" and copy them to a regular file (potentially hanging indefinitely) or may create a regular empty destination file
• when used on NamedPipe, will hang indefinitely
• not atomic, since it uses read/write

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source file does not exist
• NoSuchThing if source file is a Socket
• PermissionDenied if output directory is not writable
• PermissionDenied if source directory can't be opened
• InvalidArgument if source file is wrong type (symlink or directory)
• SameFile if source and destination are the same file (HPathIOException)

Note: calls sendfile and possibly read/write as fallback

Copies a regular file, directory or symbolic link. In case of a symbolic link it is just recreated, even if it points to a directory. Any other file type is ignored.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• examines filetypes explicitly
• calls copyDirRecursive for directories

Like easyCopy except it overwrites the destination if it already exists. For directories, this overwrites contents without pruning them, so the resulting directory may have more files than have been copied.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• examines filetypes explicitly
• calls copyDirRecursive for directories

Deletes the given file. Raises eISDIR if run on a directory. Does not follow symbolic links.

Throws:

• InappropriateType for wrong file type (directory)
• NoSuchThing if the file does not exist
• PermissionDenied if the directory cannot be read

Deletes the given directory, which must be empty, never symlinks.

Throws:

• InappropriateType for wrong file type (symlink to directory)
• InappropriateType for wrong file type (regular file)
• NoSuchThing if directory does not exist
• UnsatisfiedConstraints if directory is not empty
• PermissionDenied if we can't open or write to parent directory

Notes: calls rmdir

Deletes the given directory recursively. Does not follow symbolic links. Tries deleteDir first before attemtping a recursive deletion.

On directory contents this behaves like easyDelete and thus will ignore any file type that is not RegularFile, SymbolicLink or Directory.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• not atomic
• examines filetypes explicitly

Throws:

• InappropriateType for wrong file type (symlink to directory)
• InappropriateType for wrong file type (regular file)
• NoSuchThing if directory does not exist
• PermissionDenied if we can't open or write to parent directory

Deletes a file, directory or symlink. In case of directory, performs recursive deletion. In case of a symlink, the symlink file is deleted. Any other file type is ignored.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• examines filetypes explicitly
• calls deleteDirRecursive for directories

Opens a file appropriately by invoking xdg-open. The file type is not checked. This forks a process.

Executes a program with the given arguments. This forks a process.

Create an empty regular file at the given directory with the given filename.

Throws:

• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• AlreadyExists if destination file already exists

Create an empty directory at the given directory with the given filename.

Throws:

• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• AlreadyExists if destination directory already exists

Create a symlink.

Throws:

• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• AlreadyExists if destination file already exists

Note: calls symlink

Rename a given file with the provided filename. Destination and source must be on the same device, otherwise eXDEV will be raised.

Does not follow symbolic links, but renames the symbolic link file.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• has a separate set of exception handling, apart from the syscall

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source file does not exist
• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• PermissionDenied if source directory cannot be opened
• UnsupportedOperation if source and destination are on different devices
• FileDoesExist if destination file already exists (HPathIOException)
• DirDoesExist if destination directory already exists (HPathIOException)
• SameFile if destination and source are the same file (HPathIOException)

Note: calls rename (but does not allow to rename over existing files)

Move a file. This also works across devices by copy-delete fallback. And also works on directories.

Does not follow symbolic links, but renames the symbolic link file.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• copy-delete fallback is inherently non-atomic
• since this function calls easyCopy and easyDelete as a fallback to renameFile, file types that are not RegularFile, SymbolicLink or Directory may be ignored

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source file does not exist
• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• PermissionDenied if source directory cannot be opened
• FileDoesExist if destination file already exists (HPathIOException)
• DirDoesExist if destination directory already exists (HPathIOException)
• SameFile if destination and source are the same file (HPathIOException)

Note: calls rename (but does not allow to rename over existing files)

Like moveFile, but overwrites the destination if it exists.

Does not follow symbolic links, but renames the symbolic link file.

Ignores any file type that is not RegularFile, SymbolicLink or Directory.

Safety/reliability concerns:

• copy-delete fallback is inherently non-atomic
• checks for file types and destination file existence explicitly

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if source file does not exist
• PermissionDenied if output directory cannot be written to
• PermissionDenied if source directory cannot be opened
• SameFile if destination and source are the same file (HPathIOException)

Note: calls rename (but does not allow to rename over existing files)

Default permissions for a new file.

Default permissions for a new directory.

Gets all filenames of the given directory. This excludes "." and "..". This version does not follow symbolic links.

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if directory does not exist
• InappropriateType if file type is wrong (file)
• InappropriateType if file type is wrong (symlink to file)
• InappropriateType if file type is wrong (symlink to dir)
• PermissionDenied if directory cannot be opened

Get the file type of the file located at the given path. Does not follow symbolic links.

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if the file does not exist
• PermissionDenied if any part of the path is not accessible

Applies realpath on the given absolute path.

Throws:

• NoSuchThing if the file at the given path does not exist
• NoSuchThing if the symlink is broken