class IO::Spec::Unix

Platform specific operations on file and directory paths for POSIX

class IO::Spec::Unix is IO::Spec  { }

An object of this type is available via the variable $*SPEC if the Raku interpreter is running on a Unix-like platform.

About this class and its related classes also see IO::Spec.

Methods§

method abs2rel§

method abs2rel(IO::Path:D $path, IO::Path:D $base = $*CWD --> Str:D)

Returns a string that represents $path, but relative to $base path. Both $path and $base may be relative paths. $base defaults to $*CWD.

method basename§

method basename(Str:D $path --> Str:D)

Takes a path as a string and returns a possibly-empty portion after the last slash:

IO::Spec::Unix.basename("foo/bar/") .raku.say; # OUTPUT: «""␤» 
IO::Spec::Unix.basename("foo/bar/.").raku.say; # OUTPUT: «"."␤» 
IO::Spec::Unix.basename("foo/bar")  .raku.say; # OUTPUT: «"bar"␤»

method canonpath§

method canonpath(Str() $path, :$parent --> Str:D)

Returns a string that is a canonical representation of $path. If :$parent is set to true, will also clean up references to parent directories. NOTE: the routine does not access the filesystem, so no symlinks are followed.

IO::Spec::Unix.canonpath("foo//../bar/../ber").say;
# OUTPUT: «foo/../bar/../ber␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.canonpath("foo///./../bar/../ber").say;
# OUTPUT: «foo/../bar/../ber␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.canonpath("foo///./../bar/../ber", :parent).say;
# OUTPUT: «ber␤»

method catdir§

method catdir (*@parts --> Str:D)

Concatenates multiple path fragments and returns the canonical representation of the resultant path as a string. The @parts are Str objects and are allowed to contain path separators.

IO::Spec::Unix.catdir(<foo/bar ber raku>).say; # OUTPUT: «foo/bar/ber/raku␤»

method catfile§

Alias for catdir.

method catpath§

method catpath ($, Str:D $part1, Str:D $part2 --> Str:D)

Takes two path fragments and concatenates them, adding or removing a path separator, if necessary. The first argument is ignored (it exists to maintain consistent interface with other IO::Spec types for systems that have volumes).

IO::Spec::Unix.catpath($, 'some/dir', 'and/more').say;
# OUTPUT: «some/dir/and/more␤»

method curdir§

method curdir()

Returns a string representing the current directory:

say '.' eq $*SPEC.curdir; # OUTPUT: «True␤»

method curupdir§

method curupdir()

Returns a Block taking an argument. This block returns True if its argument is neither the string representing the current directory nor the string representing the directory one up from the current one. It returns False otherwise. This block is intended to be used with smartmatching.

say $*SPEC.curupdir;
# OUTPUT: «-> str $dir { #`(Block|65335808) ... }␤» 
 
my @dirs = <. foo .. bar>;
say @dirs.grep: { $_ ~~ $*SPEC.curupdir };
# OUTPUT: «(foo bar)␤» 

Neither foo nor bar are equal to the representation of the current or parent directory, that is why they are returned by grep.

Note: Before Rakudo version 2020.06 a none Junction was returned instead of a Block.

method devnull§

method devnull(--> Str:D)

Returns the string "/dev/null" representing the "Null device":

$*SPEC.devnull.IO.spurt: "foo bar baz";

method dir-sep§

method dir-sep(--> Str:D)

Returns the string "/" representing canonical directory separator character.

IO::Spec::Unix.dir-sep.say; # OUTPUT: «/␤» 

method extension§

NOTE: Most users would want to use the higher-level routine IO::Path.extension instead of this lower-level version.

method extension(Str:D $path --> Str:D)

Takes a string representing a base name and returns the characters after the last dot ("."), or empty string if no dots are present. The routine makes no attempt to detect path separators and will return everything after the last dot.

$*SPEC.extension('foo.'      ).raku.say;  # OUTPUT: «""␤» 
$*SPEC.extension('foo.txt'   ).raku.say;  # OUTPUT: «"txt"␤» 
$*SPEC.extension('foo.tar.gz').raku.say;  # OUTPUT: «"gz"␤» 
$*SPEC.extension('foo'       ).raku.say;  # OUTPUT: «""␤» 
$*SPEC.extension('bar.foo/foo').raku.say; # OUTPUT: «"foo/foo"␤»

method is-absolute§

method is-absolute(Str:D $path --> Bool:D)

Returns True if the $path starts with a slash ("/"), even if it has combining character on it:

say IO::Spec::Unix.is-absolute: "/foo";        # OUTPUT: «True␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.is-absolute: "/\x[308]foo"; # OUTPUT: «True␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.is-absolute: "bar";         # OUTPUT: «False␤»

method join§

method join ($, Str:D $dir, Str:D $file --> Str:D)

Similar to catpath, takes two path fragments and concatenates them, adding or removing a path separator, if necessary, except it will return just $file if both $dir and $file are string '/' or if $dir is the string '.'. The first argument is ignored (it exists to maintain consistent interface with other IO::Spec types for systems that have volumes).

IO::Spec::Unix.join($, 'foo', 'bar').say; # OUTPUT: «foo/bar␤» 
IO::Spec::Unix.join($, '/', '/').say;     # OUTPUT: «/␤» 
IO::Spec::Unix.join($, '.', 'foo').say;   # OUTPUT: «foo␤» 
say $*SPEC.join(True,".","/foo");         # OUTPUT: «/foo␤»

method path§

method path(--> Seq:D)

Splits the value of %*ENV<PATH> on colons (":"), replaces empty parts with ".", and returns a Seq with each of the resultant parts. Returns an empty Seq if %*ENV<PATH> is not set or is an empty string.

%*ENV<PATH> = 'foo:bar/ber::foo:';
IO::Spec::Unix.path.raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("foo", "bar/ber", ".", "foo", ".").Seq␤»

method rel2abs§

method rel2abs(Str() $path, $base = $*CWD --> Str:D)

Returns a string representing $path converted to absolute path, based at $base, which defaults to $*CWD. If $base is not an absolute path, it will be made absolute relative to $*CWD, unless $*CWD and $base are the same.

say $*CWD;                                  # OUTPUT: «"/home/camelia".IO␤» 
 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: 'foo';          # OUTPUT: «/home/camelia/foo␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: './';           # OUTPUT: «/home/camelia␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: 'foo/../../';   # OUTPUT: «/home/camelia/foo/../..␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: '/foo/';        # OUTPUT: «/foo␤» 
 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: 'foo', 'bar';   # OUTPUT: «/home/camelia/bar/foo␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: './', '/bar';   # OUTPUT: «/bar␤» 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: '/foo/', 'bar'; # OUTPUT: «/foo␤» 
 
say IO::Spec::Unix.rel2abs: 'foo/../../', 'bar';
# OUTPUT: «/home/camelia/bar/foo/../..␤» 

method rootdir§

method rootdir(--> Str:D)

Returns string '/', representing root directory.

method split§

method split(IO::Spec::Unix: Cool:D $path)

Creates an IO::Path::Parts for $path, with an empty string as its volume attribute's value.

IO::Spec::Unix.split('C:/foo/bar.txt').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «IO::Path::Parts.new("","C:/foo","bar.txt")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.split('/foo/').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «IO::Path::Parts.new("","/","foo")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.split('///').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «IO::Path::Parts.new("","/","/")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.split('./').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «IO::Path::Parts.new("",".",".")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.split('.').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «IO::Path::Parts.new("",".",".")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.split('').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «IO::Path::Parts.new("","","")␤» 

Note: Before Rakudo version 2020.06 this method split the given $path into "volume", "dirname", and "basename" and returned the result as a List of three Pairs, in that order.

method splitdir§

method splitdir(Cool:D $path --> List:D)

Splits the given $path on slashes.

IO::Spec::Unix.splitdir('C:\foo/bar.txt').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("C:\\foo", "bar.txt")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitdir('/foo/').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "foo", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitdir('///').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "", "", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitdir('./').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «(".", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitdir('.').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «(".",)␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitdir('').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("",)␤» 

method splitpath§

method splitpath(Cool:D $path, :$nofile --> List:D)

Splits the given $path into a list of 3 strings: volume, dirname, and file. The volume is always an empty string, returned for API compatibility with other IO::Spec types. If :$nofile named argument is set to True, the content of the file string is undefined and should be ignored; this is a means to get a performance boost, as implementations may use faster code path when file is not needed.

IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('C:\foo/bar.txt').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "C:\\foo/", "bar.txt")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('C:\foo/bar.txt', :nofile).raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "C:\\foo/bar.txt", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('/foo/').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "/foo/", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('/foo/', :nofile).raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "/foo/", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('///').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "///", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('./').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "./", "")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('.').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "", ".")␤» 
 
IO::Spec::Unix.splitpath('').raku.say;
# OUTPUT: «("", "", "")␤» 

method tmpdir§

method tmpdir(--> IO::Path:D)

Attempts to locate a system's temporary directory by checking several typical directories and environment variables. Uses current directory if no suitable directories are found.

method updir§

method updir()

Returns a string representing the directory one up from current:

say '..' eq $*SPEC.updir; # OUTPUT: «True␤»