Overview
LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution.
LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the underlying directory structure and file attributes.
LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1.
Status
Current version is 1.4.1. It was developed for Lua 5.1.
Download
LuaFileSystem source can be downloaded from its Lua Forge page. If you are using LuaBinaries 5.1.3 a Windows binary version of LuaFileSystem (compiled with Visual Studio 2005 Express) can be found at the same LuaForge page.
History
- Version 1.4.1 [07/May/2008]
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- documentation review
- fixed Windows compilation issues
- fixed bug in the Windows tests (patch by Shmuel Zeigerman)
- fixed bug [#2185]
lfs.attributes(filename, 'size')overflow on files > 2 Gb
- Version 1.4.0 [13/Feb/2008]
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- added function
lfs.setmode(works only in Windows systems). lfs.attributesraises an error if attribute does not exist
- added function
- Version 1.3.0 [26/Oct/2007]
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- added function
lfs.symlinkattributes(works only in non Windows systems).
- added function
- Version 1.2.1 [08/May/2007]
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- compatible only with Lua 5.1 (Lua 5.0 support was dropped)
- Version 1.2 [15/Mar/2006]
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- added optional argument to
lfs.attributes - added function
lfs.rmdir - bug correction on
lfs.dir
- added optional argument to
- Version 1.1 [30/May/2005]
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- added function
lfs.touch.
- added function
- Version 1.0 [21/Jan/2005]
- Version 1.0 Beta [10/Nov/2004]
Credits
LuaFileSystem was designed by Roberto Ierusalimschy, André Carregal and Tomás Guisasola as part of the Kepler Project, which holds its copyright.
Contact us
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