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+ <li><a href="../libraries/pl.html">pl</a></li>
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+<h2>Manual</h2>
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+ <li><a href="../manual/01-introduction.md.html">Introduction</a></li>
+ <li><a href="../manual/02-arrays.md.html">Tables and Arrays</a></li>
+ <li><a href="../manual/03-strings.md.html">Strings. Higher-level operations on strings.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="../manual/04-paths.md.html">Paths and Directories</a></li>
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+ <li><a href="../manual/08-additional.md.html">Additional Libraries</a></li>
+ <li><a href="../manual/09-discussion.md.html">Technical Choices</a></li>
+</ul>
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+
+<h1>Module <code>pl.dir</code></h1>
+<p>Listing files in directories and creating/removing directory paths.</p>
+<p> Dependencies: <a href="../libraries/pl.utils.html#">pl.utils</a>, <a href="../libraries/pl.path.html#">pl.path</a></p>
+
+<p> Soft Dependencies: <code>alien</code>, <code>ffi</code> (either are used on Windows for copying/moving files)</p>
+
+
+<h2><a href="#Functions">Functions</a></h2>
+<table class="function_list">
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#fnmatch">fnmatch (filename, pattern)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">Test whether a file name matches a shell pattern.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#filter">filter (filenames, pattern)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">Return a list of all file names within an array which match a pattern.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#getfiles">getfiles (dirname, mask)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">return a list of all files in a directory which match a shell pattern.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#getdirectories">getdirectories (dirname)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">return a list of all subdirectories of the directory.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#copyfile">copyfile (src, dest, flag)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">copy a file.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#movefile">movefile (src, dest)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">move a file.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#walk">walk (root, bottom_up, follow_links)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">return an iterator which walks through a directory tree starting at root.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#rmtree">rmtree (fullpath)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">remove a whole directory tree.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#makepath">makepath (p)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">create a directory path.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#clonetree">clonetree (path1, path2, file_fun, verbose)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">clone a directory tree.</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#dirtree">dirtree (d)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">return an iterator over all entries in a directory tree</td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td class="name" nowrap><a href="#getallfiles">getallfiles (start_path, shell_pattern)</a></td>
+ <td class="summary">Recursively returns all the file starting at <em>path</em>.</td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<br/>
+<br/>
+
+
+ <h2 class="section-header "><a name="Functions"></a>Functions</h2>
+
+ <dl class="function">
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "fnmatch"></a>
+ <strong>fnmatch (filename, pattern)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ Test whether a file name matches a shell pattern.
+ Both parameters are case-normalized if operating system is
+ case-insensitive.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">filename</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A file name.
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">pattern</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A shell pattern. The only special characters are
+ <code>&apos;*&apos;</code> and <code>&apos;?&apos;</code>: <code>&apos;*&apos;</code> matches any sequence of characters and
+ <code>&apos;?&apos;</code> matches any single character.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+
+
+
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ dir and mask must be strings
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "filter"></a>
+ <strong>filter (filenames, pattern)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ Return a list of all file names within an array which match a pattern.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">filenames</span>
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">tab</span></span>
+ An array containing file names.
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">pattern</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A shell pattern.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="../classes/pl.List.html">List(string)</a></span>
+ List of matching file names.
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ dir and mask must be strings
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "getfiles"></a>
+ <strong>getfiles (dirname, mask)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ return a list of all files in a directory which match a shell pattern.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">dirname</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A directory. If not given, all files in current directory are returned.
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">mask</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A shell pattern. If not given, all files are returned.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">{string}</a></span>
+ list of files
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ dirname and mask must be strings
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "getdirectories"></a>
+ <strong>getdirectories (dirname)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ return a list of all subdirectories of the directory.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">dirname</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A directory
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">{string}</a></span>
+ a list of directories
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ dir must be a a valid directory
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "copyfile"></a>
+ <strong>copyfile (src, dest, flag)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ copy a file.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">src</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ source file
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">dest</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ destination file or directory
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">flag</span>
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+ true if you want to force the copy (default)
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+ operation succeeded
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ src and dest must be strings
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "movefile"></a>
+ <strong>movefile (src, dest)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ move a file.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">src</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ source file
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">dest</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ destination file or directory
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+ operation succeeded
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ src and dest must be strings
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "walk"></a>
+ <strong>walk (root, bottom_up, follow_links)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ return an iterator which walks through a directory tree starting at root.
+ The iterator returns (root,dirs,files)
+ Note that dirs and files are lists of names (i.e. you must say path.join(root,d)
+ to get the actual full path)
+ If bottom_up is false (or not present), then the entries at the current level are returned
+ before we go deeper. This means that you can modify the returned list of directories before
+ continuing.
+ This is a clone of os.walk from the Python libraries.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">root</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A starting directory
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">bottom_up</span>
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+ False if we start listing entries immediately.
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">follow_links</span>
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+ follow symbolic links
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ an iterator returning root,dirs,files
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ root must be a directory
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "rmtree"></a>
+ <strong>rmtree (fullpath)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ remove a whole directory tree.
+ Symlinks in the tree will be deleted without following them.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">fullpath</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A directory path (must be an actual directory, not a symlink)
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ true or nil</li>
+ <li>
+ error if failed</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ fullpath must be a string
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "makepath"></a>
+ <strong>makepath (p)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ create a directory path.
+ This will create subdirectories as necessary!
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">p</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A directory path
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ true on success, nil + errormsg on failure
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ failure to create
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "clonetree"></a>
+ <strong>clonetree (path1, path2, file_fun, verbose)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ clone a directory tree. Will always try to create a new directory structure
+ if necessary.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">path1</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ the base path of the source tree
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">path2</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ the new base path for the destination
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">file_fun</span>
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">func</span></span>
+ an optional function to apply on all files
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">verbose</span>
+ <span class="types"><span class="type">bool</span></span>
+ an optional boolean to control the verbosity of the output.
+ It can also be a logging function that behaves like print()
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+ <li>
+ true, or nil</li>
+ <li>
+ error message, or list of failed directory creations</li>
+ <li>
+ list of failed file operations</li>
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ path1 and path2 must be strings
+
+
+ <h3>Usage:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <pre class="example">clonetree(<span class="string">'.'</span>,<span class="string">'../backup'</span>,copyfile)</pre>
+ </ul>
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "dirtree"></a>
+ <strong>dirtree (d)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ return an iterator over all entries in a directory tree
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">d</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ a directory
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ an iterator giving pathname and mode (true for dir, false otherwise)
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ d must be a non-empty string
+
+
+
+</dd>
+ <dt>
+ <a name = "getallfiles"></a>
+ <strong>getallfiles (start_path, shell_pattern)</strong>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>
+ Recursively returns all the file starting at <em>path</em>. It can optionally take a shell pattern and
+ only returns files that match <em>shell</em>pattern_. If a pattern is given it will do a case insensitive search.
+
+
+ <h3>Parameters:</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="parameter">start_path</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A directory. If not given, all files in current directory are returned.
+ </li>
+ <li><span class="parameter">shell_pattern</span>
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.4">string</a></span>
+ A shell pattern. If not given, all files are returned.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h3>Returns:</h3>
+ <ol>
+
+ <span class="types"><a class="type" href="../classes/pl.List.html">List(string)</a></span>
+ containing all the files found recursively starting at <em>path</em> and filtered by <em>shell</em>pattern_.
+ </ol>
+
+ <h3>Raises:</h3>
+ start_path must be a directory
+
+
+
+</dd>
+</dl>
+
+
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