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The Boost.Filesystem library provides facilities to manipulate files and directories, and the paths that identify them.

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Own program prints different directory sizes than DU

I made a little c++ project to print the sizes of directories and files ordened. However, I noticed that I get a difference in size for what du reports and what my program, using boost::filesystem, reports. Could anyone tell me what kind of error I…
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Linker error when compiling with Boost.Filesystem on macOS High Sierra

I'm currently trying to compile a program that uses Boost.Filesystem on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. I'm also using gcc 7.3 to compile, which I manually installed using Homebrew. The program will compile, but then throws the following error during…
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Error while building boost for android arm architectures

Why am I getting these errors only when building some particular boost libraries like filesystem for arm ? error: no member named 'fgetpos' in the global namespace error: no member named 'fsetpos' in the global namespace error: no member named…
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Storing an auto specified variable into a string variable?

I'm sorry if my terminology might be wrong but I have an example code here using the "filesystem" library where it displays all the directory contents and its sub-contents using a for loop and it uses an auto type variable 'p'. I want to convert…
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boost/filesystem.hpp not linking in osx boost installed via homebrew

I installed boost via $ brew install boost In xcode I have specified /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.65.1/include in my header search path and /usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.65.1/lib in my library search path. I can successfully #include…
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Remove dependency on boost::filesystem::current_path()

I have a single line of code for which I include the boost-filesystem 1.64 library which I'd love to remove, so I can remove the dependency on Boost altogether from my program. The line itself: std::string currentPath =…
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How to insert values from boost::filesystem::directory_iterator() to a map

std::copy(boost::filesystem::directory_iterator(paths), boost::filesystem::directory_iterator(), // directory_iterator::value_type std::ostream_iterator(std::cout, "\n"));" The above code will return files in a…
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Basic concepts with std::string references, std::regex and boost::filesystem

Below, I produce both broken code and a fixed version of the same. The problem is that I am not able to fully explain to myself why the former doesn't work but the latter does. I obviously need to review some very basic concept of the C++ language:…
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C++ ReadDirectoryChangesW and Boost returns dir change as File (OLD NAME)

I have an application which is monitoring directories for changes. However, when I rename a directory, lets say Directory A into Directory B, than I will see the following output results: File renamed (OLD): C:\A Directory renamed (NEW): C:\B while…
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How do you "update" a diretory_iterator after changes to a directory have been made?

I am writing a program using C++ and Boost::filesystem. The program is supposed to take pictures in a given directory and move them to folders. Each folder is supposed to only hold a given number of pictures.…
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c++ - BOOST filesystem path from variable string

I ran into this issue when creating a boost::filesystem::path object (boost v1.55). I couldn't figure out how to create a path from from a String variable, or concatenation of Strings? //Example 1 namespace fs = boost::filesystem; String dest =…
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C++ - Update/mirror a folder backup with BOOST Filesystem (1.55)

I am attempting to backing up a user profile (or more accurately copying specific directories e.g. username\documents, username\desktop, etc.) to a network shared drive. I'm using C++ builder (10.1 starter), thus limited to boost 1.55. I've found…
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boost::filesystem::path.parent_path() and whitespace

I want to check a path from a users input. The input must provide a path of a file which does not exist. Further, if the input also provides directories, these directories must exists. Example inputs: /existent_dir_a/existent_dir_b/existent_file.bin…
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Non deterministic execution of boost filesystem directory_iterator

The following code recursively iterates over a given directory and prints its contents in the same order every time. Is it possible to alter the directory iterator to print the directory contents in a random way (without i.e. using a vector to store…
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What is the expected form of boost::filesystem::native path?

I did a Google search to see how to check if a given path is valid, preferably using boost. It brought me here: How to check if path is valid in boost::filesystem? Great! I say to myself. I then Google up the boost doc…
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