Filesystem Module
const fs = require('fs')
The implementation tries to follow the CommonJS Filesystem/A/0 specification where possible.
Single File Directory Manipulation
exists
checks if a file of any type or directory exists
fs.exists(path)
Returns true if a file (of any type) or a directory exists at a given path. If the file is a broken symbolic link, returns false.
isFile
tests if path is a file
fs.isFile(path)
Returns true if the path points to a file.
isDirectory
tests if path is a directory
fs.isDirectory(path)
Returns true if the path points to a directory.
size
gets the size of a file
fs.size(path)
Returns the size of the file specified by path.
mtime
gets the last modification time of a file
fs.mtime(filename)
Returns the last modification date of the specified file. The date is returned as a Unix timestamp (number of seconds elapsed since January 1 1970).
pathSeparator
fs.pathSeparator
If you want to combine two paths you can use fs.pathSeparator instead of / or \.
join
fs.join(path, filename)
The function returns the combination of the path and filename, e.g. fs.join(Hello/World, foo.bar) would return Hello/World/foo.bar.
getTempFile
returns the name for a (new) temporary file
fs.getTempFile(directory, createFile)
Returns the name for a new temporary file in directory directory. If createFile is true, an empty file will be created so no other process can create a file of the same name.
Note: The directory directory must exist.
getTempPath
returns the temporary directory
fs.getTempPath()
Returns the absolute path of the temporary directory
makeAbsolute
makes a given path absolute
fs.makeAbsolute(path)
Returns the given string if it is an absolute path, otherwise an absolute path to the same location is returned.
chmod
sets file permissions of specified files (non windows only)
fs.exists(path)
Returns true on success.
list
returns the directory listing
fs.list(path)
The functions returns the names of all the files in a directory, in lexically sorted order. Throws an exception if the directory cannot be traversed (or path is not a directory).
Note: this means that list("x") of a directory containing "a" and "b" would return ["a", "b"], not ["x/a", "x/b"].
listTree
returns the directory tree
fs.listTree(path)
The function returns an array that starts with the given path, and all of the paths relative to the given path, discovered by a depth first traversal of every directory in any visited directory, reporting but not traversing symbolic links to directories. The first path is always "", the path relative to itself.
makeDirectory
creates a directory
fs.makeDirectory(path)
Creates the directory specified by path.
makeDirectoryRecursive
creates a directory
fs.makeDirectoryRecursive(path)
Creates the directory hierarchy specified by path.
remove
removes a file
fs.remove(filename)
Removes the file filename at the given path. Throws an exception if the path corresponds to anything that is not a file or a symbolic link. If "path" refers to a symbolic link, removes the symbolic link.
removeDirectory
removes an empty directory
fs.removeDirectory(path)
Removes a directory if it is empty. Throws an exception if the path is not an empty directory.
removeDirectoryRecursive
removes a directory
fs.removeDirectoryRecursive(path)
Removes a directory with all subelements. Throws an exception if the path is not a directory.
File IO
read
reads in a file
fs.read(filename)
Reads in a file and returns the content as string. Please note that the file content must be encoded in UTF-8.
read64
reads in a file as base64
fs.read64(filename)
Reads in a file and returns the content as string. The file content is Base64 encoded.
readBuffer
reads in a file
fs.readBuffer(filename)
Reads in a file and returns its content in a Buffer object.
readFileSync
fs.readFileSync(filename, encoding)
Reads the contents of the file specified in filename. If encoding is specified,
the file contents will be returned as a string. Supported encodings are:
utf8orutf-8asciibase64ucs2orucs-2utf16leorutf16behex
If no encoding is specified, the file contents will be returned in a Buffer
object.
write
fs.write(filename, content)
Writes the content into a file. Content can be a string or a Buffer object. If the file already exists, it is truncated.
writeFileSync
fs.writeFileSync(filename, content)
This is an alias for fs.write(filename, content).
append
fs.append(filename, content)
Writes the content into a file. Content can be a string or a Buffer object. If the file already exists, the content is appended at the end.
Recursive Manipulation
copyRecursive
copies a directory structure
fs.copyRecursive(source, destination)
Copies source to destination. Exceptions will be thrown on:
- Failure to copy the file
- specifying a directory for destination when source is a file
- specifying a directory as source and destination
CopyFile
copies a file into a target file
fs.copyFile(source, destination)
Copies source to destination. If Destination is a directory, a file of the same name will be created in that directory, else the copy will get the specified filename.
move
renames a file
fs.move(source, destination)
Moves source to destination. Failure to move the file, or specifying a directory for destination when source is a file will throw an exception. Likewise, specifying a directory as source and destination will fail.
ZIP
unzipFile
unzips a file
fs.unzipFile(filename, outpath, skipPaths, overwrite, password)
Unzips the zip file specified by filename into the path specified by outpath. Overwrites any existing target files if overwrite is set to true.
Returns true if the file was unzipped successfully.
zipFile
zips a file
fs.zipFile(filename, chdir, files, password)
Stores the files specified by files in the zip file filename. If the file filename already exists, an error is thrown. The list of input files files must be given as a list of absolute filenames. If chdir is not empty, the chdir prefix will be stripped from the filename in the zip file, so when it is unzipped filenames will be relative. Specifying a password is optional.
Returns true if the file was zipped successfully.