# File System Operations API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-system-operations-api/  
**Provider:** UNIX System Call — https://apis.io/providers/unix/  
**Base URL:** system://unix/fs  
**Documentation:** https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html

File System Operations API is one of 11 APIs that [UNIX System Call](https://apis.io/providers/unix/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Directories, File, Filesystem, and IO. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an API reference.

System calls for file and directory manipulation, including open, read, write, and file descriptor management.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Documentation** — https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/contents.html
- **APIReference** — https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/
- **Documentation** — https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/open.html
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unix/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other UNIX System Call APIs (10)

- [Process Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/process-management-api/)
- [Interprocess Communication API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/interprocess-communication-api/)
- [Memory Management API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/memory-management-api/)
- [System Information API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/system-information-api/)
- [POSIX Threads API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-threads-api/)
- [I/O Multiplexing API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/io-multiplexing-api/)
- [POSIX Semaphores API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-semaphores-api/)
- [POSIX Message Queues API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/posix-message-queues-api/)
- [Terminal and Device I/O API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/terminal-and-device-io-api/)
- [File Locking API](https://apis.io/apis/unix/file-locking-api/)

## Tags

Directories, File, Filesystem, IO

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