File::chmod is a utility that allows you to bypass system calls or bit processing of a file's permissions. It overloads the chmod() function with its own that gets an octal mode, a symbolic mode (see below), or an "ls" mode (see below). If you wish n...

Like File::chmod, but recursive with selective permissions...

File::Mode is a simple perl library meant to handle file modes and convert them to the wanted format, as well as read the files in a directory with their modes in a human readable format (eg. -rwxrwxrwx)....

Mojo::File is a scalar-based container for file system paths that provides a friendly API for dealing with different operating systems. # Access scalar directly to manipulate path my $path = Mojo::File->new('/home/sri/test'); $$path .= '.txt';...

This module provides a convenient way to create directories of arbitrary depth and to delete an entire directory subtree from the filesystem. The following functions are provided: make_path( $dir1, $dir2, .... ) make_path( $dir1, $dir2, ...., \%opts ...

"lockfile" is a perlfunc "flock" wrapper. The lock is autotamically released as soon as the assotiated object is no longer referenced. "lockfile_multi" makes non-blocking "lockfile" calls for multiple files and throws and exception if all are locked....

#=head2 awk # #Not implemented. # #=cut #sub awk { # _not_implemented(); #} basename Given a path to a file or directory returns the last part of the path. See File::Basename for details....

File::Cache is a perl module that implements an object storage space where data is persisted across process boundaries via the filesystem. File::Cache builds a cache in the file system using a multi-level directory structure that looks like this: <CA...

This module eases setting permissions on files. This module provides method to: 1. change ownerships on files. 2. change read/write/execute permissions on files. 3. get various pieces of info on the file using the stat function. and other things....

This module takes care of dealing with files regardless of whether they're local or remote. It allows you to create and edit files without having to worry about their physical location on the network. If a file passed into a function is of the form "...

This module implements and hides the following pattern for you: 1. Open a temporary file for output 2. While reading from the original file, write output to the temporary file 3. "rename" the temporary file over the original file In many cases, in pa...

"File::Searcher" allows for the traversing of a directory tree for files matching a Perl regular expression. When a match is found, the statistics are stored and if the file is a text file a series of searches and replacements can be performed. "File...

This provides fairly low-level access to the Win32 System API calls dealing with files and directories. To pass in "NULL" as the pointer to an optional buffer, pass in an empty list reference, "[]". Beyond raw access to the API calls and related cons...

The constructor File::Find::Node->new creates a top level File::Find::Node object for the specified path. The $f->process method takes a reference to a callback function that is called for each item in the traversal. The $f->post_process method takes...