Managing Files
You can manipulate files of your smartphone. Before managing them, you’ll need to ask read and write permission.
There is a notion of current directory like in an actual desktop shell.
The current directory is stored in the variable pwd, along with its parentFile.
You can instantiate files relatively from the current directory with
the function file(String) allowing to get a file.
relatively from the current directory.
Since Groovy is a scripting language, you can omit a parenthesis.
By doing so you can write shell-like code as shown in the below example
cd 'Download'
f = file('test.txt')
cp f, 'test2.txt'
cd '..'
Functions like cd(), ls() cp() take Object(s) in parameter and will do their best to convert
the parameter(s) into a File
Shell-like file functions
There are several methods allowing you to manage your files. Each of these functions takes an Object as argument which can be of the following types:
- String -> It will convert it to a file relative to
pwd(like callingfile(string)) or an absolute file if the string starts with/ - Path -> It will simply convert the Path to a File
- File -> no conversion needed
cd(Object)
Allows you to Change Directory. It will update pwd and parentFile variables
ls()
It will list all file names (directories included) in the current directory pwd
lsFiles()
It will list all files (directories included) in the current directory pwd
lsPattern(String)
It will list all the file names (directories included) matching the given glob pattern
Example
lsPattern("*.groovy")
lsFilesPattern(String)
It will list all the files (directories included) matching the given glob pattern
mkdir(Object)
Will create a directory if non-existing
touch(Object)
Will update the Last Upated time of a given file. If the file doesn’t exists, an empty file will
be created
cat(Object)
It will display the content of a text file
cp(Object, Object)
It will copy/override the first given file/directory on the second argument (file/directory)
mv(Object, Object)
Used to rename files/directories