Manipulating Files and Directories

Functions for manipulating files.

Different operating systems have different commands for manipulating files. The Wolfram Language provides a simple set of file manipulation functions, intended to work in the same way under all operating systems.

Notice that (RefLink[CopyFile, paclet:ref/CopyFile]) and (RefLink[RenameFile, paclet:ref/RenameFile]) give the final file the same modification date as the original one. (RefLink[FileDate, paclet:ref/FileDate]) returns modification dates in the {year,month,day,hour,minute,second} format used by (RefLink[DateList, paclet:ref/DateList]).

Functions for manipulating directories.