Supporting Functions

So far we covered three elements of the filesystem: the path class, directory_entry and directory iterators. The library also provides a set of non-member functions.

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Query functions

function	description
filesystem::is_block_file()	checks whether the given path refers to block device
filesystem::is_character_file()	checks whether the given path refers to a character device
filesystem::is_directory()	checks whether the given path refers to a directory
filesystem::is_empty()	checks whether the given path refers to an empty file or directory
filesystem::is_fifo()	checks whether the given path refers to a named pipe
filesystem::is_other()	checks whether the argument refers to another file
filesystem::is_regular_file()	checks whether the argument refers to a regular file
filesystem::is_socket()	checks whether the argument refers to a named IPC socket
filesystem::is_symlink()	checks whether

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