Shell Utilities

(abspath path)

Create an absolute path. Does not resolve . and .. (useful for generating entries in install manifest file).

(basename path)

Get the filename of a path without any leading directory components.

(clear-cache)

Clear the global git cache.

(clear-manifest)

Clear the global installation manifest.

(clexe-shell & args)

(copy src dest)

Copy a file or directory recursively from one location to another.

(copyfile src dest)

Copy a file one location to another.

(create-dirs dest)

Create all directories needed for a file (mkdir -p).

(devnull)

(dirname path)

Get the directory of a file without the filename.

(drop1-shell std args)

Variant of `shell` to play nice with cl.exe, which outputs some junk to terminal that can't be turned off.

(exec-slurp & args)

Read stdout of subprocess and return it trimmed in a string.

(filepath-replace repo)

Remove special characters from a string or path to make it into a path segment.

(find-build-dir)

Gets the build directory to output files to.

(find-cache)

Return the path to the global cache.

(find-manifest name)

Get the full path of a manifest file given a package name.

(find-manifest-dir)

Get the path to the directory containing manifests for installed packages.

(is-win)

Check if we should assume a DOS-like shell or default to posix shell.

split paths on / and \.

(rimraf path)

Hard delete directory tree

(rm path)

Remove a directory and all sub directories.

(shell & args)

Do a shell command