boost-filesystem

As explained in the documentation , the expected output of the following is: boost::filesystem::path filePath1 = "/home/user/"; cout << filePath1.parent_path() << endl; // outputs "/home/user" boost::filesystem::path filePath2 = "/home/user"; cout << filePath2.parent_path() << endl; // outputs "/home" The question is, how do you deal with this? That is, if I accept a path as an argument, I don't want the user to care whether or not it should have a trailing slash. It seems like the easiest thing to do would be to append a trailing slash, then call parent_path() TWICE to get the parent path of

I have a path to the directory, and I want to traverse through all of its sub-directories, collecting files' pathes by the way. namespace fs = boost::filesystem; std::vector<fs::path> traverse_if_directory(fs::path& f) { std::vector<fs::path> result; if (fs::is_directory(f)) { for (fs::recursive_directory_iterator it(f), eit; it != eit; ++it) { if (!fs::is_directory(it->path())) { result.push_back(it->path()); } } } else { result.push_back(f); } return result; } Unfortunately, in the middle of the traversing, I stumble upon a directory which I have no rights to look at, and the code above

I am iterating through all files in a directory recursively using the following: try { for ( bf::recursive_directory_iterator end, dir("./"); dir != end; ++dir ) { const bf::path &p = dir->path(); if(bf::is_regular_file(p)) { std::cout << "File found: " << p.string() << std::endl; } } } catch (const bf::filesystem_error& ex) { std::cerr << ex.what() << '\n'; } But this includes hidden files and files in hidden directories. How do I filter out these files? If needed I can limit myself to platforms where hidden files and directories begin with the '.' character. Unfortunately there doesn't seem

I am getting consistent segfaults with almost any operation I am trying to perform with boost path. ( Edit: It appears that all segfaulting functions are related to current_path() ) Sample program: #include <boost/filesystem/operations.hpp> #include <boost/filesystem/path.hpp> #include <iostream> using namespace std; using namespace boost::filesystem; using namespace boost::system; int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { error_code err; auto p = path("hello/../world"); cout << p.string() << endl; path c = canonical(p, err); cout << c.string() << endl; } The above is just an example, the