Filesystem and Directories

In this chapter, we will cover following recipes:

• Traversing folders—recursively traversing a path in the filesystem and inspecting its contents
• Working with paths—building paths in a system-independent way
• Expanding filenames—finding all files that match a specific pattern
• Getting file information—detecting the properties of a file or directory
• Named temporary files—working with temporary files that you need to access from other processes too
• Memory and disk buffer—spooling a temporary buffer to disk if it's bigger than a threshold
• Managing filename encoding—working with the encoding of filenames
• Copying a directory—copying the content of a whole directory
• Safely replacing a file's content—how to replace the content of a file safely in case of failures