CHAPTER 9
Interacting with the File System
You can use LINQ as you would a scripting programming language to perform several types of file system analytics operations. For .NET developers, LINQ can be as useful as PowerShell—in fact, sometimes even better, because when using LINQ, developers can still leverage all the other benefits that the host language has to offer (C# in this case).
In this chapter, you will see recipes that illustrate how you can use LINQ to perform various file operations, including the following:
- Comparing CSV files
- Finding the total size of a set of files in a directory
- Simulating some common LINUX commands
- Finding duplicate ...
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