Nitau

I need a programming language with which to create programs that do the following things:

1 Easily manipulate files and folders on the hard drive (move them...easily change their properties, rename them... delete them...copy them... reorganize them... access the date modified/permissions information...)
2 Be able to easily search the computer for files...and take the search results and reorganize them.
3 Preferrably at a level of direct interaction with the harddrive...
4 Maybe a scripting language? I dunno

However it would also help that it may be complex enough that I can implement some kind of GUI as well..

Let me know of any programming languages that satisfy these conditions!!

I am working with Java right now, which is one of the only languages I know...but I really dislike the indirect way Java handles files ("with abstract File objects"), I prefer something more direct...like having a direct link to the files rather than through an intermediate File object.

Anyhow...help would be very much appreciated.

Nitau

Nitau

Also...if there is a way to use several languages in conjunction with each other, let me know if that is possible as well.

MadLurker

Perl is adequate for what you describe.

Ancient Dragon

1) C and C++ would be equally capable of fulfilling those requirements. C# may to able too, I don't know.

>>Also...if there is a way to use several languages in conjunction with each other, let me know if that is possible as well

Microsoft .NET Managed programs can mix and match C++, C# and VB. There are also "mixed language" programming, where libraries are compiled with one language and called from other languages -- the win32 api is a good example of that.

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Nitau

Thanks, guys.

Freaky Chris

Python, makes it really rather simple to do this sort of thing and with tkinter or another GUI library such as wxPython or Iron Python, then it is also not too difficult to create a GUI.

Only thing is you may find Python to be a little be slow for something like this, so it depends on just how fast you need to do things. It will only be fractionally slow. But it will be noticable for instance if you are seraching the entire computer for files.

Chris

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Lakrids

Everyone knows that COBOL is the best for file manipulation

MasterWill

LMAO

I actually use Python for things like this, and it is more than adequate. I know Chris mentioned a speed issue, but I have not encountered any real difference in reading a directory of 2500 files using Python compared to reading the same directory using, say, C#. That really is OS- and filesystem-dependent.

One of the main reasons why I use Python to work with large directory trees containing a multitude of files is that Python has a simple way to traverse the directory hierarchies: os.path.walk (or os.walk if you prefer to not use a callback). That one function makes directory walking so much easier and allows you to do some pretty sophisticated processing of bulk quantities of files.

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