easy-file

Cross-platform File handling

BSD-3-Clause licensed and maintained by Kazu Yamamoto

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Used by 1 package in nightly-2026-11-03(full list with versions):

Easy file handling for Haskell

This is a Haskell package of cross-platform file handling for Unix/Mac/Windows.

The current Haskell modules have following shortcomings:

getModificationTime exists in System.Directory. But getAccessTime, getStatusChangeTime, getCreationTime do not exist.
getModificationTime returns obsoleted type, ClockTime. It should return modern type, UTCTime, I believe.
Some file functions are missing. A function to tell the link counter, for instance.
Path separator is not unified. Even though Windows accepts ‘/’ as a file separator, getCurrentDirectory in System.Directory returns ‘\’ as a file separator. So, we need to specify regular expression like this: “[/\]foo[/\]bar[/\]baz”.
getHomeDirectory returns HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH instead of the HOME environment variable on Windows.

This package aims to resolve these problems.

Supporting GHC 9.2 or later only.
Fixing setFileSize leaking a file handle on Windows.
hasSubDirectories returns Nothing on Windows instead of throwing an exception.
Documenting that timestamps are truncated to seconds and that canonicalizePath may return a path with \ on Windows.