Shell Utilities

(copy src dest)

Copy a file or directory recursively from one location to another.
Expects input to be unix style paths

(copy-file src-path dst-path)

Copy a file from source to destination. Creates all directories in the path to the destination file if they do not exist.

(create-dirs dir-path)

Create all directories in path specified as string including itself.

(devnull)

get the /dev/null equivalent of the current platform as an open file

(escape & args)

Output a string with all arguments correctly quoted

(exec & args)

Execute command specified by args returning it's exit code

(exec-fail & args)

Execute command specified by args, fails when command exits with non-zero exit code

(exec-slurp & args)

Read stdout of command specified by args and return it trimmed in a string.

(exec-slurp-all & args)

Read stdout and stderr of subprocess and return it trimmed in a struct with :err and :out containing the output as string.
This will also return the exit code under the :status key.

(exists? path)

Check if the given file or directory exists. (Follows symlinks)

(list-all-files dir &opt into)

List the files in the given directory recursively. Return the paths to all files found, relative to the current working directory if the given path is a relative path, or as an absolute path otherwise.

(make-new-file file-path &opt mode)

Create and open a file, creating all the directories leading to the file if they do not exist, and return it. By default, open as a writable file (mode is `:w`).

(rm path)

Remove a directory and all sub directories recursively.

(scan-directory dir func)

Scan a directory recursively, applying the given function on all files and directories in a depth-first manner. This function has no effect if the directory does not exist.

(split s)

Split a string into 'sh like' tokens, returns nil if unable to parse the string.