Procedure: file-exists?
filename
Returns true iff the file named
filename
actually exists. This function is defined on arbitrarypath
values: for URI values we open aURLConnection
and invokegetLastModified()
.
Procedure: file-directory?
filename
Returns true iff the file named
filename
actually exists and is a directory. This function is defined on arbitrarypath
values; the default implementation for non-file objects is to return#t
iff the path string ends with the character ‘/
’.
Procedure: file-readable?
filename
Returns true iff the file named
filename
actually exists and can be read from.
Procedure: file-writable?
filename
Returns true iff the file named
filename
actually exists and can be writen to. (Undefined if thefilename
does not exist, but the file can be created in the directory.)
Procedure: delete-file
filename
Delete the file named
filename
. On failure, throws an exception.
Procedure: rename-file
oldname
newname
Renames the file named
oldname
tonewname
.
Procedure: copy-file
oldname
newname-from
path-to
Copy the file named
oldname
tonewname
. The return value is unspecified.
Procedure: create-directory
dirname
Create a new directory named
dirname
. Unspecified what happens on error (such as exiting file with the same name). (Currently returns#f
on error, but may change to be more compatible with scsh.)
Return the name of the default directory for temporary files.
Procedure: make-temporary-file
[format
]
Return a file with a name that does not match any existing file. Use
format
(which defaults to"kawa~d.tmp"
) to generate a unique filename in(system-tmpdir)
. The implementation is safe from race conditions, and the returned filename will not be reused by this JVM.