kslash

kslash is a collection of path utilities.

It is meant to be used as a replacement for node's path module. It aims to minimize the problems you get when writing platform independent code dealing with paths. I hope it might contain some tools of interest to you, even if you target only one platform.

path(p)

Normalizes the path and converts backslashes to slashes.

slash = require 'kslash'
slash.path 'C:\\Back\\Slash'                           ▸ C:/Back/Slash
slash.path 'C:\\Back\\Slash\\..\\To\\The\\..\\Future'  ▸ C:/Back/To/Future

Windows is capable of handling paths with forward slashes, that's why all exported functions return 'slashed' paths -- except the next one -- which you can use in cases where it isn't :)

unslash(p)

Normalizes the path on all platforms.

On Windows it converts

• slashes to backslashes
• first dirname to a drive if it has only one letter

slash.unslash '/c/test'         ▸ C:\\test
slash.unslash 'D:/c/test'       ▸ D:\\c\\test

dir(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.dir(p)                    ▸ /dir

file(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.file(p)                   ▸ file.txt

base(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.base(p)                   ▸ file

ext(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.ext(p)                    ▸ txt

removeExt(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.removeExt(p)              ▸ /dir/file

swapExt(p, ext)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.swapExt(p, 'md')          ▸ /dir/file.md
slash.swapExt(p, '.md')         ▸ /dir/file.md

isRoot(p)

slash.isRoot('C:\\')            ▸ true
slash.isRoot('/')               ▸ true

removeDrive(p)

p = 'C:\\dir\\file.txt'
slash.removeDrive(p)            ▸ /dir/file.txt

home()

slash.home()                    ▸ C:/Users/kodi

tilde(p)

p = 'C:/Users/kodi/file.txt'
slash.tilde(p)                  ▸ ~/file.txt

untilde(p)

p = '~/file.txt'
slash.untilde(p)                ▸ C:/Users/kodi/file.txt

split(p)

p = 'C:\\dir/file.txt'
slash.split(p)                  ▸ ['C:', 'dir', 'file']

splitExt(p)

p = 'C:\\dir/file.txt'
slash.splitExt(p)               ▸ ['C:/dir/file', 'txt']

splitDrive(p)

p = 'C:\\dir/file.txt'
slash.splitDrive(p)             ▸ ['/dir/file.txt', 'c']

splitFileLine(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt:12:3'
slash.splitFileLine(p)          ▸ ['/dir/file.txt', 12, 3]

splitFilePos(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt:12'
slash.splitFilePos(p)           ▸ ['/dir/file.txt', [0,11]]

removeLinePos(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt:12:3'
slash.removeLinePos(p)          ▸ /dir/file.txt

removeColumn(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt:12:3'
slash.removeColumn(p)           ▸ /dir/file.txt:12

joinFilePos(p, pos)

p = '/dir/file.txt:12'
slash.joinFilePos(p, [2, 1])    ▸ /dir/file.txt:2:2

joinFileLine(p, line, col)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.joinFileLine(p, 1, 2)     ▸ /dir/file.txt:1:2

pathlist(p)

p = '/dir/file.txt'
slash.pathlist(p)               ▸ ['/', '/dir', '/dir/file.txt']

resolve(p)

Applies unenv and untilde before converting path into an absolute one.

unenv(p)

Replaces $... with matching environment variables

p = '$HOME/dir'
slash.unenv(p)                  ▸ C:/Users/kodi/dir

relative(p, to)

p = 'C:/test/some/path.txt' 
to ='C:/test/some/other/path'
slash.relative(p,to)            ▸ ../../path.txt

samePath(p, q)

Resolves p and q and compares the results.

encode(p)

Encodes p for use as an URL.

p = '/dir/a # b' 
slash.encode(p)                 ▸ /dir/a%20%23%20b

fileUrl(p)

Encodes p and prefixes it with 'file://'

p = '/dir/a # b' 
slash.fileUrl(p)                ▸ file:///dir/a%20%23%20b

pkg(p)

Searches backwards in pathlist of p for a package.json and returns the containing folder, if one is found.

git(p)

Same as pkg, just looking for .git directory instead.

touch(p)

Like the unix command, creates intermediate directories if they don't exist.

exists(p, cb)

Returns stat of path p if it exists, null otherwise.

The callback is optional. If provided, the test is executed asynchronously and the callback will be called with the result

slash.exists p, (stat) -> if stat then # ...

The same is true for the following functions that have a callback argument:

isDir(p, cb) dirExists(p, cb)

Returns stat of path p if it is a directory, null otherwise.

isFile(p, cb) fileExists(p, cb)

Returns stat of path p if it is a file, null otherwise.

isWritable(p, cb)

Returns true if p is writable.

isText(p)

Returns true if p is a textfile.

readText(p, cb)

Returns content of p as an utf8 string. Returns an empty string, if p doesn't exist or isn't readable.

sanitize(p)

Removes leading and trailing newlines from path p.

win()

Returns true if path.sep is '/'. Reasonable heuristic to check if code is running on a Windows box: on wsl os.platform() returns 'linux', but path.sep is still '/'.

isAbsolute(p) isRelative(p) normalize(p) dirname(p) extname(p) basename(p, ext) parse(p) join()

Same as the functions of the path module but p is sanitized and slashed first.

Doesn't throw

All functions return an empty string or null if the provided path is an empty string, null or undefined. The same is true, if an underlying function call throws an error.

If this is too lax for your taste, or you want to debug your code, you can redefine the function slash.error:

slash.error = (msg) -> # throw or log or something else ...