Question

I am looking for standard libraries in C++ that would allow me to do things like:

1. Traverse a directory recursively
2. search for files within a directory
3. Check if file exists, folder exists or not and create it if not present.
4. Check a folder hierarchy exists or create it if not found. Equivalent of mkdir -p
5. Uncompressing / Compressing a file
6. Checking the CRC / Hash of the file
7. copy file, delete file, delete folder, copy folder recursively
8. running a system command and reading its console output within the program.

It seems that scripting languages and Java have good support for these kind of problems.
But, I am not able to find out there are standard ways of doing this in C++.

Answer 1

No, but if you want a good library implementation, you might look into Boost.Filesystem; it has widely used, cross-platform facilities for doing most of those things.