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Directory hierarchy manipulation
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There is a naming scheme used by
io
.
directories
. Operations for deleting and copying files come in two forms:
•
Words named
operation
-file
which work on regular files only.
•
Words named
operation
-tree
works on directory trees recursively, and also accepts regular files.
Deleting directory trees recursively:
delete-tree
( path -- )
Copying directory trees recursively:
copy-tree
( from to -- )
copy-tree-into
( from to -- )
copy-trees-into
( files to -- )