xzmagic / kfs

A Python-like filesystem API for C++

KFS

KFS is a C++ implementation of a Python's os and os.path modules. There are slight naming differences for consistency.

The library is a single header and single source file. Everything is under kfs:: or kfs::path namespaces.

Currently only posix is supported, but I hope to add windows support in future.

Examples

    #include <kfs/kfs.h>

    kfs::make_dir("/this/is/some/folder")

    for(auto& file: kfs::list_dir("/this/is/some/folder") {
        std::cout << file << std::endl;
    }

    kfs::touch("/this/is/some/file");

    auto path = kfs::join("/some/path", "some_file");

Erm... why?

I was originally using boost::filesystem for all of my file access stuff but I wanted to drop that dependency to make my app more portable. I wanted an abstraction over just using posix directly, and given that I code Python in my day job it made sense to base it on Python's API.