Qbs Manual | List of Built-in Services | File Service

Qbs 1.12.0

# File Service

The `File` service offers limited access to the file system for operations such as copying or removing files.

## Available Operations

### copy

      File.copy(sourceFilePath: string, targetFilePath: string): boolean

Copies `sourceFilePath` to `targetFilePath`. Any directory components in `targetFilePath` that do not yet exist will be created. If `sourceFilePath` is a directory, a recursive copy will be made. If an error occurs, a JavaScript exception will be thrown.

Note: `targetFilePath` must be the counterpart of `sourceFilePath` at the new location, not the new parent directory. This allows the copy to have a different name and is true even if `sourceFilePath` is a directory.

### exists

      File.exists(filePath: string): boolean

Returns true if and only if there is a file at `filePath`.

### directoryEntries

      File.directoryEntries(path: string, filter: File.Filter): string[]

Returns a sorted list of the directory `path`'s contents non-recursively, filtered by `filter`. The values of `filter` are equivalent to Qt's `QDir::Filter`.

### lastModified

      File.lastModified(filePath: string): number

Returns the time of last modification for the file at `filePath`. The concrete semantics of the returned value are platform-specific. You should only rely on the property that a smaller value indicates an older timestamp.

### makePath

      File.makePath(path: string): boolean

Makes the directory at `path`, creating intermediate directories if necessary. Conceptually equivalent to `mkdir -p`

### move

      File.move(oldPath: string, newPath: string, overwrite: boolean = true): boolean

Renames the file `oldPath` to `newPath`. Returns `true` if successful; otherwise returns `false`. If a file with the name `newPath` already exists, and `overwrite` is `false`, `move()` returns `false` (that is, the file will not be overwritten).

### remove

      File.remove(filePath: string): boolean

Removes the file at `filePath`. In case of a directory, it will be removed recursively.