A computer's file permission settings determine who is able to access its files and who can make changes to them. The owner or administrator of a Mac computer can specify the permissions for any file, ...

The Rich Text Format extension refers to a document-based file format used and recognized by prominent word processing applications. However, businesses may opt to rely on the format to meet ...

I have a project where I need to write binary files quickly to the disk synced. Currently I just call sync(), but I was wondering if someone new of a DLL or .hpp file that is dedicated to writing ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

Last week’s column looked at how we can read from and write to files by associated the files with user-defined file descriptors. This week, we take this idea a bit further. Closing File Descriptors In ...

Guava’s Files class includes a couple overloaded write methods for easily writing content to a file. The next code sample demonstrates using Files.write(byte[],File). Demonstrating ...

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...