123 lines
5.8 KiB
Lua
123 lines
5.8 KiB
Lua
--- File and Directory manipulation
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module 'lfs'
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---
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-- Returns a table with the file attributes corresponding to filepath (or nil
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-- followed by an error message in case of error). If the second optional
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-- argument is given, then only the value of the named attribute is returned
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-- (this use is equivalent to lfs.attributes(filepath).aname, but the table is
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-- not created and only one attribute is retrieved from the O.S.). The
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-- attributes are described as follows; attribute mode is a string, all the
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-- others are numbers, and the time related attributes use the same time
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-- reference of os.time:
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--
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-- - dev: on Unix systems, this represents the device that the inode resides on.
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-- On Windows systems, represents the drive number of the disk containing
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-- the file
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-- - ino: on Unix systems, this represents the inode number. On Windows systems
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-- this has no meaning
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-- - mode: string representing the associated protection mode (the values could
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-- be file, directory, link, socket, named pipe, char device, block
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-- device or other)
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-- - nlink: number of hard links to the file
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-- - uid: user-id of owner (Unix only, always 0 on Windows)
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-- - gid: group-id of owner (Unix only, always 0 on Windows)
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-- - rdev: on Unix systems, represents the device type, for special file inodes.
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-- On Windows systems represents the same as dev
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-- - access: time of last access
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-- - modification: time of last data modification
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-- - change: time of last file status change
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-- - size: file size, in bytes
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-- - blocks: block allocated for file; (Unix only)
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-- - blksize: optimal file system I/O blocksize; (Unix only)
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-- This function uses stat internally thus if the given filepath is a symbolic
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-- link, it is followed (if it points to another link the chain is followed
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-- recursively) and the information is about the file it refers to. To obtain
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-- information about the link itself, see function lfs.symlinkattributes.
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function lfs.attributes(filepath , aname) end
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---
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-- Changes the current working directory to the given path.
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-- Returns true in case of success or nil plus an error string.
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function lfs.chdir(path) end
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---
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-- Creates a lockfile (called lockfile.lfs) in path if it does not exist and
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-- returns the lock. If the lock already exists checks it it's stale, using the
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-- second parameter (default for the second parameter is INT_MAX, which in
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-- practice means the lock will never be stale. To free the the lock call
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-- lock:free().
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-- In case of any errors it returns nil and the error message. In particular,
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-- if the lock exists and is not stale it returns the "File exists" message.
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function lfs.lock_dir(path, seconds_stale) end
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---
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-- Returns a string with the current working directory or nil plus an error
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-- string.
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function lfs.currentdir() end
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---
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-- Lua iterator over the entries of a given directory. Each time the iterator is
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-- called with dir_obj it returns a directory entry's name as a string, or nil
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-- if there are no more entries. You can also iterate by calling `dir_obj:next()`,
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-- and explicitly close the directory before the iteration finished with
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-- `dir_obj:close()`. Raises an error if path is not a directory.
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function lfs.dir(path) end
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---
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-- Locks a file or a part of it. This function works on open files; the file
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-- handle should be specified as the first argument. The string mode could be
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-- either r (for a read/shared lock) or w (for a write/exclusive lock). The
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-- optional arguments start and length can be used to specify a starting point
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-- and its length; both should be numbers.
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-- Returns true if the operation was successful; in case of error, it returns
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-- nil plus an error string.
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function lfs.lock(filehandle, mode, start, length)
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---
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-- Creates a new directory. The argument is the name of the new directory.
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-- Returns true if the operation was successful; in case of error, it returns
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-- nil plus an error string.
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function lfs.mkdir(dirname) end
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---
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-- Removes an existing directory. The argument is the name of the directory.
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-- Returns true if the operation was successful; in case of error, it returns
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-- nil plus an error string.
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function lfs.rmdir(dirname) end
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---
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-- Sets the writing mode for a file. The mode string can be either binary or
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-- text. Returns the previous mode string for the file. This function is only
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-- available in Windows, so you may want to make sure that lfs.setmode exists
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-- before using it.
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function lfs.setmode(file, mode) end
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---
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-- Identical to lfs.attributes except that it obtains information about the link
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-- itself (not the file it refers to). This function is not available in Windows
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-- so you may want to make sure that lfs.symlinkattributes exists before using
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-- it.
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function lfs.symlinkattributes(filepath , aname) end
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---
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-- Set access and modification times of a file. This function is a bind to utime
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-- function. The first argument is the filename, the second argument (atime) is
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-- the access time, and the third argument (mtime) is the modification time.
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-- Both times are provided in seconds (which should be generated with Lua
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-- standard function os.time). If the modification time is omitted, the access
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-- time provided is used; if both times are omitted, the current time is used.
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-- Returns true if the operation was successful; in case of error, it returns
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-- nil plus an error string.
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function lfs.touch(filepath , atime , mtime) end
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---
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-- Unlocks a file or a part of it. This function works on open files; the file
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-- handle should be specified as the first argument. The optional arguments
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-- start and length can be used to specify a starting point and its length; both
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-- should be numbers.
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-- Returns true if the operation was successful; in case of error, it returns
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-- nil plus an error string.
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function lfs.unlock(filehandle, start, length) end
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