Files

Jade allows you to manipulate files in the operating system's filing system; a special type of Lisp object, a file object, is used to represent files which have been opened for reading or writing (through the streams mechanism, see section Streams).

Names of files are represented by strings, the syntax of file names is defined by the underlying operating system: Jade simply treats it as a string.

• File Names: Files are named by a string
• File Objects: Lisp objects representing files
• File Information: Predicates on files
• Manipulating Files: Deleting, renaming and copying files
• Reading Directories: Getting a list of the files in a directory
• Reading and Writing Files: Accessing the contents of a file in one go

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