The Boost.Filesystem library provides facilities to manipulate files and directories, and the paths that identify them.
Questions tagged [boost-filesystem]
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Get size of a directory on a disk in C++
Following is a code snippet I used to get directory size in c++:
boost::system::error_code ec;
boost::filesystem::space_info si =
boost::filesystem::space(path, ec);
if (ec.value() == 0) {
cout << si.capacity - si.available;
}
But…
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Escape white space in boost::fs::path
What it says on the tin. Is there a cleverer way to replace white spaces in a boost::fs::path that does not require a regex?
EDIT as an example:
_appBundlePath = boost::fs::path("/path/with spaces/here");
regex space(" ");
string sampleFilename =…
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Qt vs Boost filesystem recursive file count
void countFiles() {
QString root_path("C:\\");
QTime timer;
timer.start();
std::uint64_t count = 0;
std::queue qt_dirs;
qt_dirs.push(root_path);
while (!qt_dirs.empty()) {
auto dir_path = qt_dirs.front();
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cannot include some boost header in windows service application
Development Envinronment:
OS: Windows 8
IDE: Visual Studio 2010
Boost Version: 1.55.0
I have a simple application which writes string to a file. Since I have to run the application as windows service, i'm using windows service api such as…
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std::filesystem::canonical and std::filesystem::absolute are not working
I am using C++2a standard Visual Studio 2019 as compiler for the code.
std::filesystem::path parentPathX(argv[0]);
std::cout << "Running: " << argv[0] << std::endl;
std::cout << "Path wise: " << parentPathX.string() <<…
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The best way to ignore files with other extensions when using the C++ experimental ?
With the future C++, is there a better way to ignore files with other than wanted extensions than the one shown in the code snippet below?
I am learning the C++ experimental (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/experimental/fs) while…
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boost::filesystem::create_directory threw a boost::filesystem::filesystem_error: Bad address
The TL;DR of my code is the following:
server::server(boost::filesystem::path mappath) : mappath(mappath) {
if(boost::filesystem::is_directory(mappath) && boost::filesystem::exists(mappath)) {
// Do some stuff here
} else {
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what is the kind of return value of boost filesystem size()
In what unit the size of the file is returned in boost filesystem???
that is boost::filesystem::size() returns an int value. whether it is the size of the file in bits or bytes????
please help me in finding this!
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