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elisp: Information about Files

 
 24.6 Information about Files
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 This section describes the functions for retrieving various types of
 information about files (or directories or symbolic links), such as
 whether a file is readable or writable, and its size.  These functions
 all take arguments which are file names.  Except where noted, these
 arguments need to specify existing files, or an error is signaled.
 
    Be careful with file names that end in spaces.  On some filesystems
 (notably, MS-Windows), trailing whitespace characters in file names are
 silently and automatically ignored.
 

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· Testing Accessibility   Is a given file readable?  Writable?
· Kinds of Files          Is it a directory?  A symbolic link?
· Truenames               Eliminating symbolic links from a file name.
· File Attributes         File sizes, modification times, etc.
· Extended Attributes     Extended file attributes for access control.
· Locating Files          How to find a file in standard places.
 

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