BoxLang allows you to manipulate, read, upload, and more files via its built-in methods, which are great and easy to use. It can even help you manipulate zip/jar archives! We won't go into every single detail of file handling, but below, you can find the majority of functions to handle file handling.
DirectoryCopy Copies the contents of a directory to a destination directory.
DirectoryCreate Creates a new directory for the specified path
DirectoryDelete Deletes directory for a given path
DirectoryExists Determines whether a directory exists.
DirectoryList Lists the directory and returns the list of files under it as an array or query
DirectoryRename Renames given directory
ExpandPath Creates an absolute, platform-appropriate path that is equivalent to the value of relative_path, appended to the base path. This function (despite its name) can accept an absolute or relative path in the relative_path attribute
FileAppend appends the entire content to the specified file.
FileClose Closes an open file.
FileCopy Copies the specified on-disk or in-memory source file to the specified destination file.
FileDelete Deletes the specified file on the server.
FileExists Determines whether a file exists
FileGetMimeType Returns the mime type of the given file
FileInfo returns detailed info about the given file.
FileIsEOF Determines whether BoxLang has reached the end of the file while reading it.
FileMove Moves file from source to destination
FileOpen Opens a file to read, write, or append.
FileRead Reads an on-disk or in-memory text file or a file object created with the FileOpen function.
FileReadLine Reads a line from a file.
FileSeek Shifts the file pointer to the given position. The file must be opened with the seekable option
FileSetAccessMode This function sets the attributes of an on-disk file on UNIX or Linux. It does not work with in-memory files.
FileSetAttribute For the given path, set the file attributes.
FileSetLastModified For the given file, set the last modification date
FileSkipBytes Shifts the file pointer by the given number of bytes.
FileTouch Touches the given file and creates it if it does not already exist.
FileUpload Uploads a file to a directory on the server.
FileUploadAll Uploads files to a directory on the server.
FileWrite If you specify a file path, it writes the entire content to the specified file. If you specify a file object, it writes text or binary data to the file object.
FileWriteLine Opens up the file (or uses the existing file object) and appends the given line of text
GetFileInfo Retrieves file information.
GetFreeSpace Returns the number of unallocated bytes in the partition named by this abstract path name.
GetTempDirectory Returns the full path to the currently assigned temporary directory
GetTempFile Creates a temporary file in a directory whose name starts with (at most) the first three characters of the prefix.
ImageWrite Writes an image to the specified filename or destination.