Chapter 35. Boost.Filesystem

The library Boost.Filesystem makes it easy to work with files and directories. It provides a class called boost::filesystem::path that processes paths. In addition, many free-standing functions are available to handle tasks like creating directories or checking whether a file exists.

Boost.Filesystem has been revised several times. This chapter introduces Boost.Filesystem 3, the current version. This version has been the default since the Boost C++ Libraries 1.46.0. Boost.Filesystem 2 was last shipped with version 1.49.0.