new_for_commandline_arg


Description:

public static File new_for_commandline_arg (string arg)

Creates a File with the given argument from the command line.

The value of arg can be either a URI, an absolute path or a relative path resolved relative to the current working directory. This operation never fails, but the returned object might not support any I/O operation if arg points to a malformed path.

Note that on Windows, this function expects its argument to be in UTF-8 -- not the system code page. This means that you should not use this function with string from argv as it is passed to main. get_command_line will return a UTF-8 version of the commandline. Application also uses UTF-8 but create_file_for_arg may be more useful for you there. It is also always possible to use this function with OptionContext arguments of type g_option_arg_filename.

Parameters:

arg

a command line string

Returns:

a new File. Free the returned object with unref.