Does HTML5 allow you to interact with local client files from within a browser

No, not directly at least. However, you have a number of choices here. Currently your best choices are: Drag and drop files from desktop, see a tutorial. (Link disabled for malware/phishing) Use input type file. Read the contents with the File API or submit the form. Read more on Mozilla Developer Center about reading the … Read more

How expensive is File.exists in Java

Measure the necessary time and see yourself. As you say it is absolutely file system dependent. long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis(); …Your File.exists call long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis(); System.out.println(“time: ” + (t2 – t1) + ” ms”); You will see that it will always give you different results, since it depends also on the way your … Read more

How to determine whether to use or ?

I typically create a header filesystem.hpp with the following content: // We haven’t checked which filesystem to include yet #ifndef INCLUDE_STD_FILESYSTEM_EXPERIMENTAL // Check for feature test macro for <filesystem> # if defined(__cpp_lib_filesystem) # define INCLUDE_STD_FILESYSTEM_EXPERIMENTAL 0 // Check for feature test macro for <experimental/filesystem> # elif defined(__cpp_lib_experimental_filesystem) # define INCLUDE_STD_FILESYSTEM_EXPERIMENTAL 1 // We can’t check … Read more

How to find duplicate files with same name but in different case that exist in same directory in Linux?

The other answer is great, but instead of the “rather monstrous” perl script i suggest perl -pe ‘s!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e’ Which will lowercase just the filename part of the path. Edit 1: In fact the entire problem can be solved with: find . | perl -ne ‘s!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e; print if 1 == $seen{$_}++’ Edit 3: I … Read more