Example: Construct a File for a given commandline-argument

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public static int main (string[] args) {
	if (args.length != 2) {
		print ("%s [FILE]\n", args[0]);
		return 0;
	}

	// Create a file that can only be accessed by the current user:
	File file = File.new_for_commandline_arg (args[1]);
	try {
		FileOutputStream os = file.create (FileCreateFlags.PRIVATE);
		os.write ("My first line\n".data);
		print ("Created.\n");
	} catch (Error e) {
		print ("Error: %s\n", e.message);
	}

	return 0;
}

 valac --pkg gio-2.0 GLib.File.new_for_commandline_arg.vala

See:

• GLib.File.new_for_commandline_arg

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