Example: Load content, sync

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

try {
uint8[] contents;
string etag_out;

File file = File.new_for_commandline_arg (args[1]);
file.load_contents (null, out contents, out etag_out);

print ("%s", (string) contents);
} catch (Error e) {
print ("Error: %s\n", e.message);
}

return 0;
}

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

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