2.7: Chapter Summary
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FileSystem is a powerful and elegant library to manipulate files. It is a fundamental part of Pharo. The Pharo community will continue to extend and build it. The class FileReference is the most important entry point to the framework.
FileSystemoffers factory class methods to build file systems on hard disk and in memory.FileReferenceis a central class in the framework which represents a file or a folder. A file reference offers methods to operate on a file and navigate within a file system.- Sending the message
asFileReferenceto a string character returns its corresponding file reference (e.g.,'/tmp' asFileReference) - Creating a file and writing in it is as simple as:
(FileSystem disk workingDirectory / 'foo.txt') writeStreamDo: [ :stream | stream nextPutAll: 'Hello World' ]. FileLocatoris a late binding reference, useful when the file location in a hard disk depends on the running context.FileSystemDirectoryEntryoffers a large set of low level detail for a given file.