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