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Utils/luarocks/share/lua/5.1/pl/file.lua

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+--- File manipulation functions: reading, writing, moving and copying.
+-- @class module
+-- @name pl.file
+local os = os
+local utils = require 'pl.utils'
+local dir = require 'pl.dir'
+local path = require 'pl.path'
+
+--[[
+module ('pl.file',utils._module)
+]]
+local file = {}
+
+--- return the contents of a file as a string
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.read
+-- @param filename The file path
+-- @return file contents
+file.read = utils.readfile
+
+--- write a string to a file
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.write
+-- @param filename The file path
+-- @param str The string
+file.write = utils.writefile
+
+--- copy a file.
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.copy
+-- @param src source file
+-- @param dest destination file
+-- @param flag true if you want to force the copy (default)
+-- @return true if operation succeeded
+file.copy = dir.copyfile
+
+--- move a file.
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.move
+-- @param src source file
+-- @param dest destination file
+-- @return true if operation succeeded, else false and the reason for the error.
+file.move = dir.movefile
+
+--- Return the time of last access as the number of seconds since the epoch.
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.access_time
+-- @param path A file path
+file.access_time = path.getatime
+
+---Return when the file was created.
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.creation_time
+-- @param path A file path
+file.creation_time = path.getctime
+
+--- Return the time of last modification
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.modified_time
+-- @param path A file path
+file.modified_time = path.getmtime
+
+--- Delete a file
+-- @class function
+-- @name file.delete
+-- @param path A file path
+file.delete = os.remove
+
+return file