HELP FILEUTILS                      Whole-file access, stat and globbing

    uses fileutils;

file_to_string(FILE) -> S
    The whole file as one (binary-safe) string.

string_to_file(S, FILE)
    Write S as the entire contents of FILE (created or truncated).

file_append(S, FILE)
    Append S (creating FILE if absent).

file_lines(FILE) -> LIST
    The file as a list of line strings (str_lines conventions: \n or
    \r\n, no phantom last line).

file_size(FILE) -> N or false
file_mtime(FILE) -> EPOCH or false
    Byte size / modification time (epoch seconds); false when the
    file does not exist.  (Existence alone: sys_file_exists.)

dir_files(PATTERN) -> LIST
    Glob expansion to a sorted list of paths, e.g.
    dir_files('pop/lib/lib/*.p').

See also: LIB * STRUTILS, LIB * DATETIME (for formatting file_mtime),
sysdelete, sys_file_match, and tools/tests/test_fileutils.p.

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