/*
- Copyright (C) 2007 Tim Mayberry
+ Copyright (C) 2007 Tim Mayberry
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
LIBPBD_API void
find_files_matching_regex (std::vector<std::string>& results,
const Searchpath& paths,
- const std::string& regexp);
+ const std::string& regexp,
+ bool recurse = false);
/**
* Find paths in a Searchpath that match a supplied filter(functor)
*/
LIBPBD_API void copy_files(const std::string & from_path, const std::string & to_dir);
+/**
+ * Attempt to copy all regular files from from_path to a new directory.
+ */
+LIBPBD_API void copy_recurse(const std::string & from_path, const std::string & to_dir);
+
+/**
+ * Update the access and modification times of file at @path, creating file if it
+ * doesn't already exist.
+ * @path file path to touch
+ * @return true if file exists or was created and access time updated.
+ */
+LIBPBD_API bool touch_file (const std::string& path);
+
/**
* Take a (possibly) relative path and make it absolute
* @return An absolute path
/**
* Remove all the contents of a directory recursively.
- * @note dir will not be removed
+ * including the dir itself (`rm -rf $dir`)
*
- * @param dir The directory to remove files from.
+ * @param dir The directory to remove recursively
*/
LIBPBD_API void remove_directory (const std::string& dir);
+/**
+ * Create a temporary writable directory in which to create
+ * temporary files. The directory will be created under the
+ * top level "domain" directory.
+ *
+ * For instance tmp_writable_directory ("pbd", "foo") on POSIX
+ * systems may return a path to a new directory something like
+ * to /tmp/pbd/foo-1423
+ *
+ * @param domain The top level directory
+ * @param prefix A prefix to use when creating subdirectory name
+ *
+ * @return new temporary directory
+ */
+LIBPBD_API std::string tmp_writable_directory (const char* domain, const std::string& prefix);
+
+/** If @param path exists, unlink it. If it doesn't exist, create it.
+ *
+ * @return zero if required action was successful, non-zero otherwise.
+ */
+
+LIBPBD_API int toggle_file_existence (std::string const &);
+
} // namespace PBD
#endif