The DirectoryExts
module follows the footstep of
other 'Exts
' modules and provides functionality
that goes beyond what the Haskell 98 module
Directory
offers. That is, functionality that
provides access to file/directory operations in an OS-independent
manner.
DirectoryExts
currently exports the following:
copyFile :: FilePath -> FilePath -> IO ()
Notes:
copyFile
lets you copy a file to another
non-existent file.
File copying is done external to Haskell, and is for natural reasons quicker as a result and, most importantly, file copying handles the number of the OS-specific error conditions that might arise as a result of trying to perform the file copy operation.
Should the file copying operation for some reason not succeed, the
action copyFile
raises an IO exception to
signal the fact.