In addition to a rich set of standard file operations, the Wolfram Language's unified symbolic architecture makes it easy to apply algorithmic approaches and efficient higher-level programming to many file and system administration tasks.

FileNames — list names of files or directories at any depth in the file system

CopyFile   ▪ RenameFile   ▪ DeleteFile   ▪ FileConvert

File — symbolic representation of a file location

File Properties

FileDate   ▪ FileSize   ▪ SetFileDate   ▪ FileType   ▪ FileHash   ▪ FileFormat   ▪ FileFormatQ   ▪ FileByteCount

File Utilities

FindList — search for strings in lists of files

FilePrint — display the raw contents of a file

ReadString — get the complete contents of a file as a string

Directory Operations »

DirectoryQ — test whether a name corresponds to an existing directory

CreateDirectory   ▪ CopyDirectory   ▪ DeleteDirectory   ▪ SetDirectory   ▪ ...

File System Operations

FileSystemScan — perform an operation on nested directories of files

FileSystemMap — give results of applying an operation to nested directories of files

Finding Files

FindFile — find a file on $Path etc.

FileNameSetter — interactively browse for a file

FileExistsQ   ▪ AbsoluteFileName

File Name Operations »

FileNameSplit , FileNameJoin — split, join file name strings

FileBaseName   ▪ DirectoryName   ▪ ExpandFileName   ▪ ...

Compression & Archiving

CreateArchive   ▪ ExtractArchive

Encryption »

EncryptFile   ▪ DecryptFile   ▪ GenerateSymmetricKey   ▪ ...

Reading & Writing Files »

Import   ▪ Export   ▪ Get (<< )  ▪ Put (>> )  ▪ ReadList   ▪ BinaryReadList   ▪ ReadByteArray   ▪ ...

File Templates

FileTemplate — set up a file as a template

TemplateApply — apply a file template to specific data

Low-Level File Operations »

OpenRead   ▪ OpenWrite   ▪ Streams   ▪ Read   ▪ Skip   ▪ ...

Remote Files

URL — specify a remote file using HTTPS, SFTP, SCP, ...

URLDownload   ▪ RemoteFile   ▪ Authentication   ▪ $SSHAuthentication

Persistent Storage »

LocalObject   ▪ LocalSymbol   ▪ CloudObject   ▪ ...

External Storage Services

ExternalStorageObject — reference to a file on an external storage service (e.g. IPFS, Dropbox)

ExternalStorageUpload — upload a file to an external storage service

ExternalStorageDownload — download a file from an external storage service

ExternalStoragePut   ▪ ExternalStorageGet   ▪ $ExternalStorageBase   ▪ ExternalStorageBase