Deleting, moving, and copying files (original) (raw)
The operations for moving and copying files come in three flavors:
| • | A word named operation which takes a source and destination path. |
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| • | A word named operation-into which takes a source path and destination directory. The destination file will be stored in the destination directory and will have the same file name as the source path. |
| • | A word named operations-into which takes a sequence of source paths and destination directory. |
Since both of the above lists apply to copying files, that this means that there are a total of six variations on copying a file.
move-file-into ( from to -- ) move-files-into ( files to -- )
copy-file-into ( from to -- ) copy-files-into ( files to -- )
On most operating systems, files can only be moved within the same file system. To move files between file systems, use copy-file followed by delete-file on the old name.