path for path

Explore and manipulate paths.

Signature

> path {flags}

Input/output types:

input	output
nothing	string

Notes

You must use one of the following subcommands. Using this command as-is will only produce this help message.

There are three ways to represent a path:

• As a path literal, e.g., '/home/viking/spam.txt'
• As a structured path: a table with 'parent', 'stem', and 'extension' (and
• 'prefix' on Windows) columns. This format is produced by the 'path parse' subcommand.
• As a list of path parts, e.g., '[ / home viking spam.txt ]'. Splitting into parts is done by the path split command.

All subcommands accept all three variants as an input. Furthermore, the 'path join' subcommand can be used to join the structured path or path parts back into the path literal.

Subcommands:

name	type	usage
path basename	Builtin	Get the final component of a path.
path dirname	Builtin	Get the parent directory of a path.
path exists	Builtin	Check whether a path exists.
path expand	Builtin	Try to expand a path to its absolute form.
path join	Builtin	Join a structured path or a list of path parts.
path parse	Builtin	Convert a path into structured data.
path relative-to	Builtin	Express a path as relative to another path.
path split	Builtin	Split a path into a list based on the system's path separator.
path type	Builtin	Get the type of the object a path refers to (e.g., file, dir, symlink).