// Make sure working directory exists and is empty
val wd = os.pwd/"out/splash"
os.remove.all(wd)
os.makeDir.all(wd)
// Read/write files
os.write(wd/"file.txt", "hello")
os.read(wd/"file.txt") ==> "hello"
// Perform filesystem operations
os.copy(wd/"file.txt", wd/"copied.txt")
os.list(wd) ==> Seq(wd/"copied.txt", wd/"file.txt")
// Invoke subprocesses
val invoked = os.proc("cat", wd/"file.txt", wd/"copied.txt").call(cwd = wd)
invoked.out.trim ==> "hellohello"
// Chain multiple subprocess' stdin/stdout together
val curl = os.proc("curl", "-L" , "https://git.io/fpvpS").spawn(stderr = os.Inherit)
val gzip = os.proc("gzip", "-n").spawn(stdin = curl.stdout)
val sha = os.proc("shasum", "-a", "256").spawn(stdin = gzip.stdout)
sha.stdout.trim ==> "acc142175fa520a1cb2be5b97cbbe9bea092e8bba3fe2e95afa645615908229e -"
OS-Lib is a simple Scala interface to common OS filesystem and subprocess APIs. OS-Lib aims to make working with files and processes in Scala as simple as any scripting language, while still providing the safety, flexibility and performance you would expect from Scala.
OS-Lib aims to be a complete replacement for the
java.nio.file.Files
/java.nio.file.Paths
, java.lang.ProcessBuilder
scala.io
and scala.sys
APIs. You should not need to drop down to underlying
Java APIs, as OS-Lib exposes all relevant capabilities in an intuitive and
performant way. OS-Lib has no dependencies and is unopinionated: it exposes the
underlying APIs in a concise but straightforward way, without introducing it’s
own idiosyncrasies, quirks, or clever DSLs.
If you use OS-Lib and like it, you will probably enjoy the following book by the Author:
Hands-on Scala has uses OS-Lib extensively throughout the book, and has the entirety of Chapter 7: Files and Subprocesses dedicated to OS-Lib. Hands-on Scala is a great way to level up your skills in Scala in general and OS-Lib in particular.
You can also support it by donating to our Patreon:
For a hands-on introduction to the library, take a look at these two blog posts:
To begin using OS-Lib, first add it as a dependency to your project’s build:
// Mill
ivy"com.lihaoyi::os-lib:0.10.7"
// SBT
"com.lihaoyi" %% "os-lib" % "0.10.7"
Most operation in OS-Lib take place on os.Path
s, which are
constructed from a base path or working directory wd
. Most often, the first
thing to do is to define a wd
path representing the folder you want to work
with:
val wd = os.pwd / "my-test-folder"
You can of course multiple base paths, to use in different parts of your program
where convenient, or simply work with one of the pre-defined paths os.pwd
,
os.root
, or os.home
.
// Find and concatenate all .txt files directly in the working directory
os.write(
wd / "all.txt",
os.list(wd).filter(_.ext == "txt").map(os.read)
)
os.read(wd / "all.txt") ==>
"""I am cowI am cow
|Hear me moo
|I weigh twice as much as you
|And I look good on the barbecue""".stripMargin
// Find and concatenate all .txt files directly in the working directory using `cat`
os.proc("cat", os.list(wd).filter(_.ext == "txt")).call(stdout = wd / "all.txt")
os.read(wd / "all.txt") ==>
"""I am cowI am cow
|Hear me moo
|I weigh twice as much as you
|And I look good on the barbecue""".stripMargin
// Curl to temporary file
val temp = os.temp()
os.proc("curl", "-L" , "https://git.io/fpfTs").call(stdout = temp)
os.size(temp) ==> 53814
// Curl to temporary file
val temp2 = os.temp()
val proc = os.proc("curl", "-L" , "https://git.io/fpfTJ").spawn()
os.write.over(temp2, proc.stdout)
os.size(temp2) ==> 53814
// Line-count of all .txt files recursively in wd
val lineCount = os.walk(wd)
.filter(_.ext == "txt")
.map(os.read.lines)
.map(_.size)
.sum
lineCount ==> 9
// Find the largest three files in the given folder tree
val largestThree = os.walk(wd)
.filter(os.isFile(_, followLinks = false))
.map(x => os.size(x) -> x).sortBy(-_._1)
.take(3)
largestThree ==> Seq(
(711, wd / "misc/binary.png"),
(81, wd / "Multi Line.txt"),
(22, wd / "folder1/one.txt")
)
// Move all files inside the "misc" folder out of it
import os./
os.list(wd / "misc").map(os.move.matching { case p/"misc"/x => p/x } )
// Calculate the word frequency of all the text files in the folder tree
def txt = os.walk(wd).filter(_.ext == "txt").map(os.read)
def freq(s: Seq[String]) = s.groupBy(x => x).mapValues(_.length).toSeq
val map = freq(txt.flatMap(_.split("[^a-zA-Z0-9_]"))).sortBy(-_._2)
map
os.read(arg: os.ReadablePath): String
os.read(arg: os.ReadablePath, charSet: Codec): String
os.read(arg: os.Path,
offset: Long = 0,
count: Int = Int.MaxValue,
charSet: Codec = java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8): String
Reads the contents of a os.Path
or other os.Source
as a
java.lang.String
. Defaults to reading the entire file as UTF-8, but you can
also select a different charSet
to use, and provide an offset
/count
to
read from if the source supports seeking.
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.read(wd / "folder1/one.txt") ==> "Contents of folder one"
os.read(wd / "Multi Line.txt") ==>
"""I am cow
|Hear me moo
|I weigh twice as much as you
|And I look good on the barbecue""".stripMargin
os.read.bytes(arg: os.ReadablePath): Array[Byte]
os.read.bytes(arg: os.Path, offset: Long, count: Int): Array[Byte]
Reads the contents of a os.Path
or os.Source
as an
Array[Byte]
; you can provide an offset
/count
to read from if the source
supports seeking.
os.read.bytes(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow".getBytes
os.read.bytes(wd / "misc/binary.png").length ==> 711
os.read.chunks(p: ReadablePath, chunkSize: Int): os.Generator[(Array[Byte], Int)]
os.read.chunks(p: ReadablePath, buffer: Array[Byte]): os.Generator[(Array[Byte], Int)]
Reads the contents of the given path in chunks of the given size; returns a generator which provides a byte array and an offset into that array which contains the data for that chunk. All chunks will be of the given size, except for the last chunk which may be smaller.
Note that the array returned by the generator is shared between each callback; make sure you copy the bytes/array somewhere else if you want to keep them around.
Optionally takes in a provided input buffer
instead of a chunkSize
,
allowing you to re-use the buffer between invocations.
val chunks = os.read.chunks(wd / "File.txt", chunkSize = 2)
.map{case (buf, n) => buf.take(n).toSeq } // copy the buffer to save the data
.toSeq
chunks ==> Seq(
Seq[Byte]('I', ' '),
Seq[Byte]('a', 'm'),
Seq[Byte](' ', 'c'),
Seq[Byte]('o', 'w')
)
os.read.lines(arg: os.ReadablePath): IndexedSeq[String]
os.read.lines(arg: os.ReadablePath, charSet: Codec): IndexedSeq[String]
Reads the given os.Path
or other os.Source
as a string
and splits it into lines; defaults to reading as UTF-8, which you can override
by specifying a charSet
.
os.read.lines(wd / "File.txt") ==> Seq("I am cow")
os.read.lines(wd / "Multi Line.txt") ==> Seq(
"I am cow",
"Hear me moo",
"I weigh twice as much as you",
"And I look good on the barbecue"
)
os.read.lines(arg: os.ReadablePath): os.Generator[String]
os.read.lines(arg: os.ReadablePath, charSet: Codec): os.Generator[String]
Identical to os.read.lines
, but streams the results back to you
in a os.Generator
rather than accumulating them in memory.
Useful if the file is large.
os.read.lines.stream(wd / "File.txt").count() ==> 1
os.read.lines.stream(wd / "Multi Line.txt").count() ==> 4
// Streaming the lines to the console
for(line <- os.read.lines.stream(wd / "Multi Line.txt")){
println(line)
}
os.read.inputStream(p: ReadablePath): java.io.InputStream
Opens a java.io.InputStream
to read from the given file.
val is = os.read.inputStream(wd / "File.txt") // ==> "I am cow"
is.read() ==> 'I'
is.read() ==> ' '
is.read() ==> 'a'
is.read() ==> 'm'
is.read() ==> ' '
is.read() ==> 'c'
is.read() ==> 'o'
is.read() ==> 'w'
is.read() ==> -1
is.close()
os.read.stream(p: ReadablePath): geny.Readable
Opens a geny.Readable to read from
the given file. This allows you to stream data to any other library that
supports Readable
without buffering the data in memory, e.g. parsing it via
FastParse, deserializing it via uPickle, uploading it via Requests-Scala, etc.
val readable: geny.Readable = os.read.stream(wd / "File.json")
requests.post("https://httpbin.org/post", data = readable)
upickle.default.read(readable)
ujson.read(readable)
os.write(target: Path,
data: os.Source,
perms: PermSet = null,
createFolders: Boolean = false): Unit
Writes data from the given file or os.Source
to a file at the
target os.Path
. You can specify the filesystem permissions of the
newly created file by passing in a os.PermSet
.
This throws an exception if the file already exists. To over-write or append to
an existing file, see os.write.over
or
os.write.append
.
By default, this doesn’t create enclosing folders; you can enable this
behavior by setting createFolders = true
os.write(wd / "New File.txt", "New File Contents")
os.read(wd / "New File.txt") ==> "New File Contents"
os.write(wd / "NewBinary.bin", Array[Byte](0, 1, 2, 3))
os.read.bytes(wd / "NewBinary.bin") ==> Array[Byte](0, 1, 2, 3)
os.write.append(target: Path,
data: os.Source,
perms: PermSet = null,
createFolders: Boolean = false): Unit
Similar to os.write
, except if the file already exists this appends
the written data to the existing file contents.
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.write.append(wd / "File.txt", ", hear me moo")
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow, hear me moo"
os.write.append(wd / "File.txt", ",\nI weigh twice as much as you")
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==>
"I am cow, hear me moo,\nI weigh twice as much as you"
os.read.bytes(wd / "misc/binary.png").length ==> 711
os.write.append(wd / "misc/binary.png", Array[Byte](1, 2, 3))
os.read.bytes(wd / "misc/binary.png").length ==> 714
os.write.over(target: Path,
data: os.Source,
perms: PermSet = null,
offset: Long = 0,
createFolders: Boolean = false,
truncate: Boolean = true): Unit
Similar to os.write
, except if the file already exists this
over-writes the existing file contents. You can also pass in truncate = false
to avoid truncating the file if the new contents is shorter than the old
contents, and an offset
to the file you want to write to.
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.write.over(wd / "File.txt", "You are cow")
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "You are cow"
os.write.over(wd / "File.txt", "We ", truncate = false)
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "We are cow"
os.write.over(wd / "File.txt", "s", offset = 8, truncate = false)
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "We are sow"
os.write.outputStream(target: Path,
perms: PermSet = null,
createFolders: Boolean = false,
openOptions: Seq[OpenOption] = Seq(CREATE, WRITE))
Open a java.io.OutputStream
to write to the given file.
val out = os.write.outputStream(wd / "New File.txt")
out.write('H')
out.write('e')
out.write('l')
out.write('l')
out.write('o')
out.close()
os.read(wd / "New File.txt") ==> "Hello"
os.list(p: Path): IndexedSeq[Path]
os.list(p: Path, sort: Boolean = true): IndexedSeq[Path]
Returns all the files and folders directly within the given folder. If the given
path is not a folder, raises an error. Can be called via
os.list.stream
to stream the results. To list files recursively,
use os.walk
.
For convenience os.list
sorts the entries in the folder before returning
them. You can disable sorted by passing in the flag sort = false
.
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedB"
)
os.list.stream(p: Path): os.Generator[Path]
Similar to os.list
, except provides a os.Generator
of
results rather than accumulating all of them in memory. Useful if the result set
is large.
os.list.stream(wd / "folder2").count() ==> 2
// Streaming the listed files to the console
for(line <- os.list.stream(wd / "folder2")){
println(line)
}
os.walk(path: Path,
skip: Path => Boolean = _ => false,
preOrder: Boolean = true,
followLinks: Boolean = false,
maxDepth: Int = Int.MaxValue,
includeTarget: Boolean = false): IndexedSeq[Path]
Recursively walks the given folder and returns the paths of every file or folder within.
You can pass in a skip
callback to skip files or folders you are not
interested in. This can avoid walking entire parts of the folder hierarchy,
saving time as compared to filtering them after the fact.
By default, the paths are returned as a pre-order traversal: the enclosing
folder is occurs first before any of it’s contents. You can pass in preOrder =
false
to turn it into a post-order traversal, such that the enclosing folder
occurs last after all it’s contents.
os.walk
returns but does not follow symlinks; pass in followLinks = true
to
override that behavior. You can also specify a maximum depth you wish to walk
via the maxDepth
parameter.
os.walk
does not include the path given to it as part of the traversal by
default. Pass in includeTarget = true
to make it do so. The path appears at
the start of the traversal of preOrder = true
, and at the end of the traversal
if preOrder = false
.
os.walk(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.walk(wd / "folder1", includeTarget = true) ==> Seq(
wd / "folder1",
wd / "folder1/one.txt"
)
os.walk(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedA/a.txt",
wd / "folder2/nestedB",
wd / "folder2/nestedB/b.txt"
)
os.walk(wd / "folder2", preOrder = false) ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA/a.txt",
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedB/b.txt",
wd / "folder2/nestedB"
)
os.walk(wd / "folder2", maxDepth = 1) ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedB"
)
os.walk(wd / "folder2", skip = _.last == "nestedA") ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedB",
wd / "folder2/nestedB/b.txt"
)
os.walk.attrs(path: Path,
skip: (Path, os.StatInfo) => Boolean = (_, _) => false,
preOrder: Boolean = true,
followLinks: Boolean = false,
maxDepth: Int = Int.MaxValue,
includeTarget: Boolean = false): IndexedSeq[(Path, os.StatInfo)]
Similar to os.walk
, except it also provides the os.StatInfo
filesystem metadata of every path that it returns. Can save time by allowing you
to avoid querying the filesystem for metadata later. Note that os.StatInfo
does not include filesystem ownership and permissions data; use os.stat.posix
on
the path if you need those attributes.
val filesSortedBySize = os.walk.attrs(wd / "misc", followLinks = true)
.sortBy{case (p, attrs) => attrs.size}
.collect{case (p, attrs) if attrsisFile => p}
filesSortedBySize ==> Seq(
wd / "misc/echo",
wd / "misc/file-symlink",
wd / "misc/echo_with_wd",
wd / "misc/folder-symlink/one.txt",
wd / "misc/binary.png"
)
os.walk.stream(path: Path,
skip: Path => Boolean = _ => false,
preOrder: Boolean = true,
followLinks: Boolean = false,
maxDepth: Int = Int.MaxValue,
includeTarget: Boolean = false): os.Generator[Path]
Similar to os.walk
, except returns a os.Generator
of
the results rather than accumulating them in memory. Useful if you are walking
very large folder hierarchies, or if you wish to begin processing the output
even before the walk has completed.
os.walk.stream(wd / "folder1").count() ==> 1
os.walk.stream(wd / "folder2").count() ==> 4
os.walk.stream(wd / "folder2", skip = _.last == "nestedA").count() ==> 2
os.walk.stream.attrs(path: Path,
skip: (Path, os.StatInfo) => Boolean = (_, _) => false,
preOrder: Boolean = true,
followLinks: Boolean = false,
maxDepth: Int = Int.MaxValue,
includeTarget: Boolean = false): os.Generator[(Path, os.StatInfo)]
Similar to os.walk.stream
, except it also provides the filesystem
metadata of every path that it returns. Can save time by allowing you to avoid
querying the filesystem for metadata later.
def totalFileSizes(p: os.Path) = os.walk.stream.attrs(p)
.collect{case (p, attrs) if attrs.isFile => attrs.size}
.sum
totalFileSizes(wd / "folder1") ==> 22
totalFileSizes(wd / "folder2") ==> 40
os.exists(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): Boolean
Checks if a file or folder exists at the specified path
os.exists(wd / "File.txt") ==> true
os.exists(wd / "folder1") ==> true
os.exists(wd / "doesnt-exist") ==> false
os.exists(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> true
os.exists(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> true
os.exists(wd / "misc/broken-symlink") ==> false
os.exists(wd / "misc/broken-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.move(from: Path, to: Path): Unit
os.move(from: Path, to: Path, createFolders: Boolean): Unit
Moves a file or folder from one path to another. Errors out if the destination path already exists, or is within the source path.
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.move(wd / "folder1/one.txt", wd / "folder1/first.txt")
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/first.txt")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedB")
os.move(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedC")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/nestedB", wd / "folder2/nestedC")
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.move(wd / "Multi Line.txt", wd / "File.txt", replaceExisting = true)
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==>
"""I am cow
|Hear me moo
|I weigh twice as much as you
|And I look good on the barbecue""".stripMargin
os.move.matching(t: PartialFunction[Path, Path]): PartialFunction[Path, Unit]
os.move
can also be used as a transformer, via os.move.matching
. This lets
you use .map
or .collect
on a list of paths, and move all of them at once,
e.g. to rename all .txt
files within a folder tree to .data
:
import os.{GlobSyntax, /}
os.walk(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedA/a.txt",
wd / "folder2/nestedB",
wd / "folder2/nestedB/b.txt"
)
os.walk(wd/'folder2).collect(os.move.matching{case p/g"$x.txt" => p/g"$x.data"})
os.walk(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedA/a.data",
wd / "folder2/nestedB",
wd / "folder2/nestedB/b.data"
)
os.move.into(from: Path, to: Path): Unit
Move the given file or folder into the destination folder
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.move.into(wd / "File.txt", wd / "folder1")
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/File.txt", wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.move.over(from: Path, to: Path): Unit
Move a file or folder from one path to another, and overwrite any file or folder than may already be present at that path
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedB")
os.move.over(wd / "folder1", wd / "folder2")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/one.txt")
os.copy(from: Path, to: Path): Unit
os.copy(from: Path, to: Path, createFolders: Boolean): Unit
Copy a file or folder from one path to another. Recursively copies folders with all their contents. Errors out if the destination path already exists, or is within the source path.
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.copy(wd / "folder1/one.txt", wd / "folder1/first.txt")
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/first.txt", wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedB")
os.copy(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedC")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(
wd / "folder2/nestedA",
wd / "folder2/nestedB",
wd / "folder2/nestedC"
)
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.copy(wd / "Multi Line.txt", wd / "File.txt", replaceExisting = true)
os.read(wd / "File.txt") ==>
"""I am cow
|Hear me moo
|I weigh twice as much as you
|And I look good on the barbecue""".stripMargin
```
`os.copy` can also be used as a transformer:
```scala
os.copy.matching(t: PartialFunction[Path, Path]): PartialFunction[Path, Unit]
This lets you use .map
or .collect
on a list of paths, and copy all of them
at once:
paths.map(os.copy.matching{case p/"scala"/file => p/"java"/file})
os.copy.into(from: Path, to: Path): Unit
Copy the given file or folder into the destination folder
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.copy.into(wd / "File.txt", wd / "folder1")
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/File.txt", wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.copy.over(from: Path, to: Path): Unit
Similar to os.copy
, but if the destination file already exists then
overwrite it instead of erroring out.
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedB")
os.copy.over(wd / "folder1", wd / "folder2")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/one.txt")
Since 0.7.5
If you want to copy a directory over another but don’t want to overwrite the whole destination directory (and loose it’s content),
you can use the mergeFolders
option of os.copy
.
os.list(wd / "folder1") ==> Seq(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedB")
os.copy(wd / "folder1", wd / "folder2", mergeFolders = true)
os.list(wd / "folder2") ==> Seq(wd / "folder2/one.txt", wd / "folder2/nestedA", wd / "folder2/nestedB")
os.makeDir(path: Path): Unit
os.makeDir(path: Path, perms: PermSet): Unit
Create a single directory at the specified path. Optionally takes in a
os.PermSet
to specify the filesystem permissions of the created
directory.
Errors out if the directory already exists, or if the parent directory of the
specified path does not exist. To automatically create enclosing directories and
ignore the destination if it already exists, using
os.makeDir.all
os.exists(wd / "new_folder") ==> false
os.makeDir(wd / "new_folder")
os.exists(wd / "new_folder") ==> true
os.makeDir.all(path: Path): Unit
os.makeDir.all(path: Path,
perms: PermSet = null,
acceptLinkedDirectory: Boolean = true): Unit
Similar to os.makeDir
, but automatically creates any necessary
enclosing directories if they do not exist, and does not raise an error if the
destination path already contains a directory. Also does not raise an error if
the destination path contains a symlink to a directory, though you can force it
to error out in that case by passing in acceptLinkedDirectory = false
os.exists(wd / "new_folder") ==> false
os.makeDir.all(wd / "new_folder/inner/deep")
os.exists(wd / "new_folder/inner/deep") ==> true
os.remove(target: Path): Boolean
os.remove(target: Path, checkExists: Boolean = false): Boolean
Remove the target file or folder. Folders need to be empty to be removed; if you
want to remove a folder tree recursively, use os.remove.all
.
Returns true
if the file was present before.
It will fail with an exception when the file is missing but checkExists
is true
,
or when the directory to remove is not empty.
os.exists(wd / "File.txt") ==> true
os.remove(wd / "File.txt")
os.exists(wd / "File.txt") ==> false
os.exists(wd / "folder1/one.txt") ==> true
os.remove(wd / "folder1/one.txt")
os.remove(wd / "folder1")
os.exists(wd / "folder1/one.txt") ==> false
os.exists(wd / "folder1") ==> false
When removing symbolic links, it is the link that gets removed, and not its destination:
os.remove(wd / "misc/file-symlink")
os.exists(wd / "misc/file-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
os.exists(wd / "File.txt", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.remove(wd / "misc/folder-symlink")
os.exists(wd / "misc/folder-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
os.exists(wd / "folder1", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.exists(wd / "folder1/one.txt", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.remove(wd / "misc/broken-symlink")
os.exists(wd / "misc/broken-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
If you wish to remove the destination of a symlink, use
os.readLink
.
os.remove.all(target: Path): Unit
Remove the target file or folder; if it is a folder and not empty, recursively removing all it’s contents before deleting it.
os.exists(wd / "folder1/one.txt") ==> true
os.remove.all(wd / "folder1")
os.exists(wd / "folder1/one.txt") ==> false
os.exists(wd / "folder1") ==> false
When removing symbolic links, it is the links that gets removed, and not it’s destination:
os.remove.all(wd / "misc/file-symlink")
os.exists(wd / "misc/file-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
os.exists(wd / "File.txt", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.remove.all(wd / "misc/folder-symlink")
os.exists(wd / "misc/folder-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
os.exists(wd / "folder1", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.exists(wd / "folder1/one.txt", followLinks = false) ==> true
os.remove.all(wd / "misc/broken-symlink")
os.exists(wd / "misc/broken-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
If you wish to remove the destination of a symlink, use
os.readLink
.
os.hardlink(src: Path, dest: Path, perms): Unit
Create a hardlink to the source path from the destination path
os.hardlink(wd / "File.txt", wd / "Linked.txt")
os.exists(wd / "Linked.txt")
os.read(wd / "Linked.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.isLink(wd / "Linked.txt") ==> false
os.symlink(link: Path, dest: FilePath, perms: PermSet = null): Unit
Create a symbolic to the source path from the destination path. Optionally takes
a os.PermSet
to customize the filesystem permissions of the symbolic
link.
os.symlink(wd / "File.txt", wd / "Linked.txt")
os.exists(wd / "Linked.txt")
os.read(wd / "Linked.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.isLink(wd / "Linked.txt") ==> true
You can create symlinks with either absolute os.Path
s or relative os.RelPath
s:
os.symlink(wd / "File.txt", os.rel/ "Linked2.txt")
os.exists(wd / "Linked2.txt")
os.read(wd / "Linked2.txt") ==> "I am cow"
os.isLink(wd / "Linked2.txt") ==> true
Creating absolute and relative symlinks respectively. Relative symlinks are resolved relative to the enclosing folder of the link.
os.readLink(src: Path): os.FilePath
os.readLink.absolute(src: Path): os.Path
Returns the immediate destination of the given symbolic link.
os.readLink(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> os.up / "File.txt"
os.readLink(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> os.up / "folder1"
os.readLink(wd / "misc/broken-symlink") ==> os.rel / "broken"
os.readLink(wd / "misc/broken-abs-symlink") ==> os.root / "doesnt/exist"
Note that symbolic links can be either absolute os.Path
s or relative
os.RelPath
s, represented by os.FilePath
. You can also use os.readLink.absolute
to automatically resolve relative symbolic links to their absolute destination:
os.readLink.absolute(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> wd / "File.txt"
os.readLink.absolute(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> wd / "folder1"
os.readLink.absolute(wd / "misc/broken-symlink") ==> wd / "misc/broken"
os.readLink.absolute(wd / "misc/broken-abs-symlink") ==> os.root / "doesnt/exist"
os.followLink(src: Path): Option[Path]
Attempts to any deference symbolic links in the given path, recursively, and return the
canonical path. Returns None
if the path cannot be resolved (i.e. some
symbolic link in the given path is broken)
os.followLink(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> Some(wd / "File.txt")
os.followLink(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> Some(wd / "folder1")
os.followLink(wd / "misc/broken-symlink") ==> None
os.temp(contents: os.Source = null,
dir: Path = null,
prefix: String = null,
suffix: String = null,
deleteOnExit: Boolean = true,
perms: PermSet = null): Path
Creates a temporary file. You can optionally provide a dir
to specify where
this file lives, file-prefix
and file-suffix
to customize what it looks
like, and a os.PermSet
to customize its filesystem permissions.
Passing in a os.Source
will initialize the contents of that file to
the provided data; otherwise it is created empty.
By default, temporary files are deleted on JVM exit. You can disable that
behavior by setting deleteOnExit = false
val tempOne = os.temp("default content")
os.read(tempOne) ==> "default content"
os.write.over(tempOne, "Hello")
os.read(tempOne) ==> "Hello"
os.temp.dir(dir: Path = null,
prefix: String = null,
deleteOnExit: Boolean = true,
perms: PermSet = null): Path
Creates a temporary directory. You can optionally provide a dir
to specify
where this file lives, a prefix
to customize what it looks like, and a
os.PermSet
to customize its filesystem permissions.
By default, temporary directories are deleted on JVM exit. You can disable that
behavior by setting deleteOnExit = false
val tempDir = os.temp.dir()
os.list(tempDir) ==> Nil
os.write(tempDir / "file", "Hello")
os.list(tempDir) ==> Seq(tempDir / "file")
os.stat(p: os.Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): os.StatInfo
Reads in the basic filesystem metadata for the given file. By default, follows
symbolic links to read the metadata of whatever the link is pointing at; set
followLinks = false
to disable that and instead read the metadata of the
symbolic link itself.
os.stat(wd / "File.txt").size ==> 8
os.stat(wd / "Multi Line.txt").size ==> 81
os.stat(wd / "folder1").fileType ==> os.FileType.Dir
os.stat.posix(p: os.Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): os.PosixStatInfo
Reads in the posix filesystem metadata for the given file, providing
information on permissions and ownership. By default, follows symbolic
links to read the metadata of whatever the link is pointing at; set
followLinks = false
to disable that and instead read the metadata of
the symbolic link itself.
os.isFile(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): Boolean
Returns true
if the given path is a file. Follows symbolic links by default,
pass in followLinks = false
to not do so.
os.isFile(wd / "File.txt") ==> true
os.isFile(wd / "folder1") ==> false
os.isFile(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> true
os.isFile(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> false
os.isFile(wd / "misc/file-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
os.isDir(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): Boolean
Returns true
if the given path is a folder. Follows symbolic links by default,
pass in followLinks = false
to not do so.
os.isDir(wd / "File.txt") ==> false
os.isDir(wd / "folder1") ==> true
os.isDir(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> false
os.isDir(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> true
os.isDir(wd / "misc/folder-symlink", followLinks = false) ==> false
os.isLink(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): Boolean
Returns true
if the given path is a symbolic link. Follows symbolic links by
default, pass in followLinks = false
to not do so.
os.isLink(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> true
os.isLink(wd / "misc/folder-symlink") ==> true
os.isLink(wd / "folder1") ==> false
os.size(p: Path): Long
Returns the size of the given file, in bytes
os.size(wd / "File.txt") ==> 8
os.size(wd / "Multi Line.txt") ==> 81
os.mtime(p: Path): Long
os.mtime.set(p: Path, millis: Long): Unit
Gets or sets the last-modified timestamp of the given file, in milliseconds
os.mtime.set(wd / "File.txt", 0)
os.mtime(wd / "File.txt") ==> 0
os.mtime.set(wd / "File.txt", 90000)
os.mtime(wd / "File.txt") ==> 90000
os.mtime(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> 90000
os.mtime.set(wd / "misc/file-symlink", 70000)
os.mtime(wd / "File.txt") ==> 70000
os.mtime(wd / "misc/file-symlink") ==> 70000
assert(os.mtime(wd / "misc/file-symlink", followLinks = false) != 40000)
os.perms(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): PermSet
os.perms.set(p: Path, arg2: PermSet): Unit
Gets or sets the filesystem permissions of the given file or folder, as an
os.PermSet
.
Note that if you want to create a file or folder with a given set of
permissions, you can pass in an os.PermSet
to os.write
or os.makeDir
. That will ensure the file or folder is created
atomically with the given permissions, rather than being created with the
default set of permissions and having os.perms.set
over-write them later
os.perms.set(wd / "File.txt", "rwxrwxrwx")
os.perms(wd / "File.txt").toString() ==> "rwxrwxrwx"
os.perms(wd / "File.txt").toInt() ==> Integer.parseInt("777", 8)
os.perms.set(wd / "File.txt", Integer.parseInt("755", 8))
os.perms(wd / "File.txt").toString() ==> "rwxr-xr-x"
os.perms.set(wd / "File.txt", "r-xr-xr-x")
os.perms.set(wd / "File.txt", Integer.parseInt("555", 8))
os.owner(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): UserPrincipal
os.owner.set(arg1: Path, arg2: UserPrincipal): Unit
os.owner.set(arg1: Path, arg2: String): Unit
Gets or sets the owner of the given file or folder. Note that your process needs
to be running as the root
user in order to do this.
val originalOwner = os.owner(wd / "File.txt")
os.owner.set(wd / "File.txt", "nobody")
os.owner(wd / "File.txt").getName ==> "nobody"
os.owner.set(wd / "File.txt", originalOwner)
os.group(p: Path, followLinks: Boolean = true): GroupPrincipal
os.group.set(arg1: Path, arg2: GroupPrincipal): Unit
os.group.set(arg1: Path, arg2: String): Unit
Gets or sets the owning group of the given file or folder. Note that your
process needs to be running as the root
user in order to do this.
val originalOwner = os.owner(wd / "File.txt")
os.owner.set(wd / "File.txt", "nobody")
os.owner(wd / "File.txt").getName ==> "nobody"
os.owner.set(wd / "File.txt", originalOwner)
Subprocess are spawned using os.call(cmd: os.Shellable, ...)
or
os.spawn(cmd: os.Shellable, ...)
calls,
where the cmd: Shellable
sets up the basic command you wish to run and
.foo(...)
specifies how you want to run it. os.Shellable
represents a value
that can make up part of your subprocess command, and the following values can
be used as os.Shellable
s:
-
java.lang.String
-
scala.Symbol
-
os.Path
-
os.RelPath
-
T: Numeric
-
Iterable[T]
s of any of the above -
TupleN[T1, T2, …Tn]
s of any of the above
Most of the subprocess commands also let you redirect the subprocess’s
stdin
/stdout
/stderr
streams via os.ProcessInput
or os.ProcessOutput
values: whether to inherit them from the parent process, stream them into
buffers, or output them to files. The following values are common to both input
and output:
-
os.Pipe
: the default, this connects the subprocess’s stream to the parent process via pipes; if used on its stdin this lets the parent process write to the subprocess viaos.SubProcess#stdin
, and if used on its stdout it lets the parent process read from the subprocess viaos.SubProcess#stdout
andos.SubProcess#stderr
. -
os.Inherit
: inherits the stream from the parent process. This lets the subprocess read directly from the parent process’s standard input or write directly to the parent process’s standard output or error.os.Inherit
can be redirected on a threadlocal basis viaos.Inherit.in
,.out
, or.err
. -
os.InheritRaw
: identical toos.Inherit
, but without being affected by redirects. -
os.Path
: connects the subprocess’s stream to the given filesystem path, reading its standard input from a file or writing its standard output/error to the file.
In addition, you can pass any os.Source
s to a Subprocess’s stdin
(String
s, InputStream
s, Array[Byte]
s, …), and pass in a
os.ProcessOutput
value to stdout
/stderr
to register callbacks that are run
when output is received on those streams.
Often, if you are only interested in capturing the standard output of the
subprocess but want any errors sent to the console, you might set stderr =
os.Inherit
while leaving stdout = os.Pipe
.
os.call(cmd: os.Shellable,
cwd: Path = null,
env: Map[String, String] = null,
stdin: ProcessInput = Pipe,
stdout: ProcessOutput = Pipe,
stderr: ProcessOutput = Pipe,
mergeErrIntoOut: Boolean = false,
timeout: Long = Long.MaxValue,
check: Boolean = true,
propagateEnv: Boolean = true): os.CommandResult
Also callable via `os.proc(cmd).call(…)`
Invokes the given subprocess like a function, passing in input and returning a
CommandResult
. You can then call result.exitCode
to see how it exited, or
result.out.bytes
or result.err.string
to access the aggregated stdout and
stderr of the subprocess in a number of convenient ways.
call
provides a number of parameters that let you configure how the subprocess
is run:
-
cwd
: the working directory of the subprocess -
env
: any additional environment variables you wish to set in the subprocess -
stdin
: any data you wish to pass to the subprocess’s standard input -
stdout
/stderr
: these areos.Redirect
s that let you configure how the processes output/error streams are configured. -
mergeErrIntoOut
: merges the subprocess’s stderr stream into it’s stdout -
timeout
: how long to wait for the subprocess to complete -
check
: disable this to avoid throwing an exception if the subprocess fails with a non-zero exit code -
propagateEnv
: disable this to avoid passing in this parent process’s environment variables to the subprocess
Note that redirecting stdout
/stderr
elsewhere means that the respective
CommandResult#out
/CommandResult#err
values will be empty.
val res = os.call(cmd = ('ls, wd/"folder2"))
res.exitCode ==> 0
res.out.text() ==>
"""nestedA
|nestedB
|""".stripMargin
res.out.trim() ==>
"""nestedA
|nestedB""".stripMargin
res.out.lines() ==> Seq(
"nestedA",
"nestedB"
)
res.out.bytes
// Non-zero exit codes throw an exception by default
val thrown = intercept[os.SubprocessException]{
os.call(cmd = ('ls, "doesnt-exist"), cwd = wd)
}
assert(thrown.result.exitCode != 0)
// Though you can avoid throwing by setting `check = false`
val fail = os.call(cmd = ('ls, "doesnt-exist"), cwd = wd, check = false)
assert(fail.exitCode != 0)
fail.out.text() ==> ""
assert(fail.err.text().contains("No such file or directory"))
// You can pass in data to a subprocess' stdin
val hash = os.call(cmd = ("shasum", "-a", "256"), stdin = "Hello World")
hash.out.trim() ==> "a591a6d40bf420404a011733cfb7b190d62c65bf0bcda32b57b277d9ad9f146e -"
// Taking input from a file and directing output to another file
os.call(cmd = ("base64"), stdin = wd / "File.txt", stdout = wd / "File.txt.b64")
os.read(wd / "File.txt.b64") ==> "SSBhbSBjb3c="
If you want to spawn an interactive subprocess, such as vim
, less
, or a
python
shell, set all of stdin
/stdout
/stderr
to os.Inherit
:
os.proc("vim").call(stdin = os.Inherit, stdout = os.Inherit, stderr = os.Inherit)
Note that by customizing stdout
and stderr
, you can use the results
of os.proc.call
in a streaming fashion, either on groups of bytes:
var lineCount = 1
os.call(
cmd = ('find, "."),
cwd = wd,
stdout = os.ProcessOutput(
(buf, len) => lineCount += buf.slice(0, len).count(_ == '\n')
),
)
Or on lines of output:
lineCount ==> 22
var lineCount = 1
os.call(
cmd = ('find, "."),
cwd = wd,
stdout = os.ProcessOutput.Readlines(
line => lineCount += 1
),
)
lineCount ==> 22
os.spawn(cmd: os.Shellable,
cwd: Path = null,
env: Map[String, String] = null,
stdin: os.ProcessInput = os.Pipe,
stdout: os.ProcessOutput = os.Pipe,
stderr: os.ProcessOutput = os.Pipe,
mergeErrIntoOut: Boolean = false,
propagateEnv: Boolean = true): os.SubProcess
Also callable via `os.proc(cmd).spawn(…)`
The most flexible of the os.proc
calls, os.spawn
simply configures and
starts a subprocess, and returns it as a os.SubProcess
. os.SubProcess
is a
simple wrapper around java.lang.Process
, which provides stdin
, stdout
, and
stderr
streams for you to interact with however you like. e.g. You can sending
commands to it’s stdin
and reading from it’s stdout
.
To implement pipes, you can spawn a process, take its stdout, and pass it as the stdin of a second spawned process.
Note that if you provide ProcessOutput
callbacks to stdout
/stderr
, the
calls to those callbacks take place on newly spawned threads that execute in
parallel with the main thread. Thus make sure any data processing you do in
those callbacks is thread safe!
stdin
, stdout
and stderr
are java.lang.OutputStream
s and
java.lang.InputStream
s enhanced with the .writeLine(s: String)
/.readLine()
methods for easy reading and writing of character and line-based data.
// Start a long-lived python process which you can communicate with
val sub = os.spawn(
cmd = ("python", "-u", "-c", "while True: print(eval(raw_input()))"),
cwd = wd
)
// Sending some text to the subprocess
sub.stdin.write("1 + 2")
sub.stdin.writeLine("+ 4")
sub.stdin.flush()
sub.stdout.readLine() ==> "7"
sub.stdin.write("'1' + '2'")
sub.stdin.writeLine("+ '4'")
sub.stdin.flush()
sub.stdout.readLine() ==> "124"
// Sending some bytes to the subprocess
sub.stdin.write("1 * 2".getBytes)
sub.stdin.write("* 4\n".getBytes)
sub.stdin.flush()
sub.stdout.read() ==> '8'.toByte
sub.destroy()
// You can chain multiple subprocess' stdin/stdout together
val curl = os.spawn(cmd = ("curl", "-L" , "https://git.io/fpfTs"), stderr = os.Inherit)
val gzip = os.spawn(cmd = ("gzip", "-n"), stdin = curl.stdout)
val sha = os.spawn(cmd = ("shasum", "-a", "256"), stdin = gzip.stdout)
sha.stdout.trim ==> "acc142175fa520a1cb2be5b97cbbe9bea092e8bba3fe2e95afa645615908229e -"
Client-server CLI applications sometimes want to run subprocesses on the server based on the environment of the client.
It is possible to customize the default environment passed to subprocesses by setting the os.SubProcess.env
threadlocal:
val clientEnvironment: Map[String, String] = ???
os.SubProcess.env.withValue(clientEnvironment) {
os.call(command) // clientEnvironment is passed by default instead of the system environment
}
After constructing a subprocess with os.proc
, you can use the pipeTo
method
to pipe its output to another subprocess:
val wc = os.proc("ls", "-l")
.pipeTo(os.proc("wc", "-l"))
.call()
.out.text()
This is equivalent to the shell command ls -l | wc -l
. You can chain together
as many subprocesses as you like. Note that by using this API you can utilize
the broken pipe behaviour of Unix systems. For example, you can take 10 first elements
of output from the yes
command, and after the head
command terminates, the yes
command will be terminated as well:
val yes10 = os.proc("yes")
.pipeTo(os.proc("head", "-n", "10"))
.call()
.out.text()
This feature is implemented inside the library and will terminate any process reading the
stdin of other process in pipeline on every IO error. This behavior can be disabled via the
handleBrokenPipe
flag on call
and spawn
methods. Note that Windows does not support
broken pipe behaviour, so a command like`yes` would run forever. handleBrokenPipe
is set
to false by default on Windows.
Both call
and spawn
correspond in their behavior to their counterparts in the os.proc
,
but spawn
returns the os.ProcessPipeline
instance instead. It offers the same
API
as SubProcess
, but will operate on the set of processes instead of a single one.
Pipefail
is enabled by default, so if any of the processes in the pipeline fails, the whole
pipeline will have a non-zero exit code. This behavior can be disabled via the pipefail
flag
on call
and spawn
methods. Note that the pipefail does not kill the processes in the pipeline,
it just sets the exit code of the pipeline to the exit code of the failed process.
os.watch.watch(roots: Seq[os.Path], onEvent: Set[os.Path] => Unit): Unit
// Mill
ivy"com.lihaoyi::os-lib-watch:0.10.7"
// SBT
"com.lihaoyi" %% "os-lib-watch" % "0.10.7"
Efficiently watches the given roots
folders for changes. Any time the
filesystem is modified within those folders, the onEvent
callback is
called with the paths to the changed files or folders. Note that
os.watch.watch
is under a different artifact than the rest of the
os.*
functions, and you need to add a separate dependency to
os-lib-watch
in order to pull it in.
Once the call to watch
returns, onEvent
is guaranteed to receive a
an event containing the path for:
-
Every file or folder that gets created, deleted, updated or moved within the watched folders
-
For copied or moved folders, the path of the new folder as well as every file or folder within it.
-
For deleted or moved folders, the root folder which was deleted/moved, but without the paths of every file that was within it at the original location
Note that watch
does not provide any additional information about the
changes happening within the watched roots
folder, apart from the path
at which the change happened. It is up to the onEvent
handler to query
the filesystem and figure out what happened, and what it wants to do.
Here is an example of use from the Ammonite REPL:
@ import $ivy.`com.lihaoyi::os-lib-watch:0.10.7`
@ os.watch.watch(Seq(os.pwd / "out"), paths => println("paths changed: " + paths.mkString(", ")))
@ os.write(os.pwd / "out/i am", "cow")
paths changed: /Users/lihaoyi/Github/Ammonite/out/i am
@ os.move(os.pwd / "out/i am", os.pwd / "out/hear me")
paths changed: /Users/lihaoyi/Github/Ammonite/out/i am,/Users/lihaoyi/Github/Ammonite/out/hear me
@ os.remove.all(os.pwd / "out/version")
paths changed: /Users/lihaoyi/Github/Ammonite/out/version/log,/Users/lihaoyi/Github/Ammonite/out/version/meta.json,/Users/lihaoyi/Github/Ammonite/out/version
OS-Lib uses strongly-typed data-structures to represent filesystem paths. The two basic versions are:
-
os.Path
: an absolute path, starting from the root -
os.RelPath
: a relative path, not rooted anywhere -
os.SubPath
: a sub path, without any..
segments, not rooted anywhere
Generally, almost all commands take absolute os.Path
s. These are
basically java.nio.file.Path
s with additional guarantees:
-
os.Path
s are always absolute. Relative paths are a separate typeos.RelPath
-
os.Path
s are always canonical. You will never find.
or..
segments in them, and never need to worry about calling.normalize
before operations.
Absolute paths can be created in a few ways:
// Get the process' Current Working Directory. As a convention
// the directory that "this" code cares about (which may differ
// from the pwd) is called `wd`
val wd = os.pwd
// A path nested inside `wd` in multiple segments
wd / "folder" / "file"
// The RHS of `/` can have multiple segments if-and-only-if it is a literal string
wd / "folder/file"
// A path starting from the root
os.root / "folder/file"
// A path with spaces or other special characters
wd / "My Folder/My File.txt"
// Up one level from the wd
wd / os.up
// Up two levels from the wd
wd / os.up / os.up
When constructing os.Path`s, the right-hand-side of the `/
operator must be either a non-literal
a string expression containing a single path segment or a literal string containing one-or-more
path segments. If a non-literal string expression on the RHS contains multiple segments, you need
to wrap the RHS in an explicit os.RelPath(…)
or os.SubPath(…)
constructor to tell OS-Lib
how to interpret it. The single-segment limitation is intended to avoid the developer accidentally
introducing Directory Traversal Attacks
or other related bugs when naively constructing paths out of dynamic and potentially untrusted
inputs, which is not an issue for literal string since the string value is directly written in
the source code and immediately visible.
os.pwd
can be modified in certain scopes via the os.dynamicPwd
dynamic variable, but
best practice is not to change it. Instead simply define a new path, e.g.
val target = os.pwd / "target"
Should be sufficient for most needs.
Above, we made use of the os.pwd
built-in path. There are a number of Paths
built into OS-Lib:
-
os.pwd
: The current working directory of the process. This can’t be changed in Java, so if you need another path to work with the convention is to define awd
variable. -
os.root
: The root of the filesystem. -
os.home
: The home directory of the current user. -
os.temp()
/os.temp.dir()
: Creates a temporary file/folder and returns the path.
os.RelPath
s represent relative paths. These are basically defined as:
class RelPath private[ops] (segments0: Array[String], val ups: Int)
The same data structure as Paths, except that they can represent a number of ups before the relative path is applied. They can be created in the following ways:
// The path "folder/file" in multiple segments
val rel1 = os.rel / "folder" / "file"
// RHS of `/` can have multiple segments if-and-only-if it is a literal string
val rel2 = os.rel / "folder/file"
// The path "file"
val rel3 = os.rel / "file"
// The relative difference between two paths
val target = os.pwd / "target/file"
assert((target.relativeTo(os.pwd)) == os.rel / "target/file")
// `up`s get resolved automatically
val minus = os.pwd.relativeTo(target)
val ups = os.up / os.up
assert(minus == ups)
In general, very few APIs take relative paths. Their main purpose is to be combined with absolute paths in order to create new absolute paths. e.g.
val target = os.pwd / "target/file"
val difference = target.relativeTo(os.pwd)
val newBase = os.root / "code/server"
assert(newBase / difference == os.root / "code/server/target/file")
os.up
is a relative path that comes in-built:
val target = os.root / "target/file"
assert(target / os.up == os.root / "target")
Note that all paths, both relative and absolute, are always expressed in a canonical manner:
assert((os.root / "folder/file" / os.up).toString == "/folder")
// not "/folder/file/.."
assert((os.rel / "folder/file" / os.up).toString == "folder")
// not "folder/file/.."
So you don’t need to worry about canonicalizing your paths before comparing them for equality or otherwise manipulating them.
os.SubPath
s represent relative paths without any ..
segments. These
are basically defined as:
class SubPath private[ops] (segments0: Array[String])
They can be created in the following ways:
// The path "folder/file" in multiple segments
val sub1 = os.sub / "folder" / "file"
// RHS of `/` can have multiple segments if-and-only-if it is a literal string
val sub2 = os.sub / "folder/file"
// The relative difference between two paths
val target = os.pwd / "out/scratch/file"
assert((target subRelativeTo os.pwd) == os.sub / "out/scratch/file")
// Converting os.RelPath to os.SubPath
val rel3 = os.rel / "folder/file"
val sub3 = rel3.asSubPath
os.SubPath
s are useful for representing paths within a particular
folder or directory. You can combine them with absolute os.Path
s to
resolve paths within them, without needing to worry about
Directory Traversal Attacks
du to accidentally accessing paths outside the destination folder.
val target = os.pwd / "target/file"
val difference = target.relativeTo(os.pwd)
val newBase = os.root / "code/server"
assert(newBase / difference == os.root / "code/server/target/file")
Attempting to construct an os.SubPath
with ..
segments results in an
exception being thrown:
val target = os.pwd / "out/scratch" /
// `up`s are not allowed in sub paths
intercept[Exception](os.pwd subRelativeTo target)
Like os.Path
s and os.RelPath
, os.SubPath
s are always canonicalized
and can be compared for equality without worrying about different
representations.
OS-Lib’s paths are transparent data-structures, and you can always access the segments and ups directly. Nevertheless, OS-Lib defines a number of useful operations that handle the common cases of dealing with these paths:
In this definition, ThisType represents the same type as the current path; e.g. a Path’s / returns a Path while a RelPath’s / returns a RelPath. Similarly, you can only compare or subtract paths of the same type.
Apart from os.RelPath
s themselves, a number of other data
structures are convertible into os.RelPath
s when spliced into a
path using /
:
-
String
s -
Symbol
s -
Array[T]
s whereT
is convertible into a RelPath -
Seq[T]
s whereT
is convertible into a RelPath
Apart from built-ins like os.pwd
or os.root
or os.home
, you can also
construct Paths from String
s, java.io.File
s or java.nio.file.Path
s:
val relStr = "hello/cow/world/.."
val absStr = "/hello/world"
assert(
RelPath(relStr) == "hello/cow",
// Path(...) also allows paths starting with ~,
// which is expanded to become your home directory
Path(absStr) == os.root / "hello/world"
)
// You can also pass in java.io.File and java.nio.file.Path
// objects instead of Strings when constructing paths
val relIoFile = new java.io.File(relStr)
val absNioFile = java.nio.file.Paths.get(absStr)
assert(
RelPath(relIoFile) == "hello/cow",
Path(absNioFile) == os.root / "hello/world",
Path(relIoFile, root / "base") == os.root / "base/hello/cow"
)
Trying to construct invalid paths fails with exceptions:
val relStr = "hello/.."
intercept[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException]{
Path(relStr)
}
val absStr = "/hello"
intercept[java.lang.IllegalArgumentException]{
RelPath(absStr)
}
val tooManyUpsStr = "/hello/../.."
intercept[PathError.AbsolutePathOutsideRoot.type]{
Path(tooManyUpsStr)
}
As you can see, attempting to parse a relative path with os.Path
or
an absolute path with os.RelPath
throws an exception. If you’re
uncertain about what kind of path you are getting, you could use BasePath
to
parse it :
val relStr = "hello/cow/world/.."
val absStr = "/hello/world"
assert(
FilePath(relStr) == "hello/cow",
FilePath(absStr) == os.root / "hello/world"
)
This converts it into a BasePath
, which is either a os.Path
or
os.RelPath
. It’s then up to you to pattern-match on the types and
decide what you want to do in each case.
You can also pass in a second argument to Path(..., base)
. If the path being
parsed is a relative path, this base will be used to coerce it into an absolute
path:
val relStr = "hello/cow/world/.."
val absStr = "/hello/world"
val basePath: FilePath = FilePath(relStr)
assert(
os.Path(relStr, os.root / "base") == os.root / "base/hello/cow",
os.Path(absStr, os.root / "base") == os.root / "hello/world",
os.Path(basePath, os.root / "base") == os.root / "base/hello/cow",
os.Path(".", os.pwd).last != ""
)
For example, if you wanted the common behavior of converting relative paths to
absolute based on your current working directory, you can pass in os.pwd
as
the second argument to Path(...)
. Apart from passing in Strings or
java.io.Files or java.nio.file.Paths, you can also pass in BasePaths you parsed
early as a convenient way of converting it to a absolute path, if it isn’t
already one.
In general, OS-Lib is very picky about the distinction between relative and absolute paths, and doesn’t allow "automatic" conversion between them based on current-working-directory the same way many other filesystem APIs (Bash, Java, Python, …) do. Even in cases where it’s uncertain, e.g. you’re taking user input as a String, you have to either handle both possibilities with BasePath or explicitly choose to convert relative paths to absolute using some base.
If you are using a system that supports different roots of paths, e.g. Windows,
you can use the argument of os.root
to specify which root you want to use.
If not specified, the default root will be used (usually, C on Windows, / on Unix).
val root = os.root('C:\') / "Users/me"
assert(root == os.Path("C:\Users\me"))
Additionally, custom filesystems can be specified by passing a FileSystem
to
os.root
. This allows you to use OS-Lib with non-standard filesystems, such as
jar filesystems or in-memory filesystems.
val uri = new URI("jar", Paths.get("foo.jar").toURI().toString, null);
val env = new HashMap[String, String]();
env.put("create", "true");
val fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env);
val path = os.root("/", fs) / "dir"
Note that the jar file system operations suchs as writing to a file are supported
only on JVM 11+. Depending on the filesystem, some operations may not be supported -
for example, running an os.proc
with pwd in a jar file won’t work. You may also
meet limitations imposed by the implementations - in jar file system, the files are
created only after the file system is closed. Until that, the ones created in your
program are kept in memory.
In addition to manipulating paths on the filesystem, you can also manipulate
os.ResourcePath
in order to read resources off of the Java classpath. By
default, the path used to load resources is absolute, using the
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader
.
val contents = os.read(os.resource / "test/ammonite/ops/folder/file.txt")
assert(contents.contains("file contents lols"))
You can also pass in a classloader explicitly to the resource call:
val cl = getClass.getClassLoader
val contents2 = os.read(os.resource(cl)/ "test/ammonite/ops/folder/file.txt")
assert(contents2.contains("file contents lols"))
If you want to load resources relative to a particular class, pass in a class for the resource to be relative, or getClass to get something relative to the current class.
val cls = classOf[test.os.Testing]
val contents = os.read(os.resource(cls) / "folder/file.txt")
assert(contents.contains("file contents lols"))
val contents2 = os.read(os.resource(getClass) / "folder/file.txt")
assert(contents2.contains("file contents lols"))
In both cases, reading resources is performed as if you did not pass a leading
slash into the getResource("foo/bar")
call. In the case of
ClassLoader#getResource
, passing in a leading slash is never valid, and in the
case of Class#getResource
, passing in a leading slash is equivalent to calling
getResource
on the ClassLoader.
OS-Lib ensures you only use the two valid cases in the API, without a leading
slash, and not the two cases with a leading slash which are redundant (in the
case of Class#getResource
, which can be replaced by ClassLoader#getResource
)
or invalid (a leading slash with ClassLoader#getResource
)
Note that you can only use os.read
from resource paths; you can’t write to them or
perform any other filesystem operations on them, since they’re not really files.
Note also that resources belong to classloaders, and you may have multiple classloaders in your application e.g. if you are running in a servlet or REPL. Make sure you use the correct classloader (or a class belonging to the correct classloader) to load the resources you want, or else it might not find them.
Many operations in OS-Lib operate on os.Source
s. These represent values that
can provide data which you can then use to write, transmit, etc.
By default, the following types of values can be used where-ever os.Source
s
are required:
-
Any
geny.Writable
data type:-
Array[Byte]
-
java.lang.String
(these are treated as UTF-8) -
java.io.InputStream
-
-
java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel
-
Any
TraversableOnce[T]
of the above: e.g.Seq[String]
,List[Array[Byte]]
, etc.
Some operations only work on os.SeekableSource
, because they need the ability
to seek to specific offsets in the data. Only the following types of values can
be used where os.SeekableSource
is required:
-
java.nio.channels.SeekableByteChannel
os.Source
also supports anything that implements the
Writable interface, such as
ujson.Value
s,
uPickle's upickle.default.writable
values,
or Scalatags's Tag
s
You can also convert an os.Path
or os.ResourcePath
to an os.Source
via
.toSource
.
Taken from the geny library, os.Generator
s
are similar to iterators except instead of providing:
-
def hasNext(): Boolean
-
def next(): T
os.Generator
s provide:
-
def generate(handleItem: A => Generator.Action): Generator.Action
In general, you should not notice much of a difference using Generator
s vs
using Iterators
: you can use the same .map
/.filter
/.reduce
/etc.
operations on them, and convert them to collections via the same
.toList
/.toArray
/etc. conversions. The main difference is that Generator
s
can enforce cleanup after traversal completes, so we can ensure open files are
closed and resources are released without any accidental leaks.
os.PermSet
s represent the filesystem permissions on a single file or folder.
Anywhere an os.PermSet
is required, you can pass in values of these types:
-
java.lang.String
s of the form"rw-r-xrwx"
, withr
/w
/x
representing the permissions that are present or dashes-
representing the permissions which are absent -
Octal
Int
s of the formInteger.parseInt("777", 8)
, matching the octal755
or666
syntax used on the command line -
Set[PosixFilePermission]
In places where os.PermSet
s are returned to you, you can then extract the
string, int or set representations of the os.PermSet
via:
-
perms.toInt(): Int
-
perms.toString(): String
-
perms.value: Set[PosixFilePermission]
-
Allow multi-segment paths segments for literals #297: You can now write
os.pwd / "foo/bar/qux"
rather thanos.pwd / "foo" / "bar" / "qux"
. Note that this is only allowed for string literals, and non-literal path segments still need to be wrapped e.g.def myString = "foo/bar/qux"; os.pwd / os.SubPath(myString)
for security and safety purposes
-
Make
os.pwd
modifiable via theos.dynamicPwd
dynamic variable #298
-
Introduce
os.SubProcess.env
DynamicVariable
to override defaultenv
(#295)
-
os.Inherit
now can be redirected on a threadlocal basis viaos.Inherit.in
,.out
, or.err
.os.InheritRaw
is available if you do not want the redirects to take effect
-
Support
os.proc
on Scala Native (#257)
-
Support for Scala-Native 0.5.0
-
Dropped support for Scala 2.11.x
-
Minimum version of Scala 3 increased to 3.3.1
-
Fix
os.watch
on Windows (#236) -
Fix propagateEnv = false to not propagate env (#238)
-
Make os.home a def (#239)
-
Added new convenience API to create pipes between processes with
.pipeTo
-
Fixed issue with leading
..
/os.up
in path segments created from aSeq
-
Fixed Windows-specific issues with relative paths with leading (back)slashes
-
Removed some internal use of deprecated API
-
ScalaDoc now maps some external references to their online sites
-
Dependency updates: sourcecode 0.3.1
-
Tooling updates: acyclic 0.3.9, Mill 0.11.5, mill-mima 0.0.24, mill-vcs-version 0.4.0, scalafmt 3.7.15
-
Refined return types when constructing paths with
/
and get rid of longThisType#ThisType
cascades. -
Added a new
PathConvertible
to support `URI`s when constructing paths.
-
os.proc
now also supportsCharSequence(s)
asShellable
-
ProcessResult
now also contains the actual used command -
Fixed handling of
atime
andctime
inStatInfo
-
Deleted
ConcurrentLinkedQueue
from Scala Native jars, as it is now provided by Scala Native 0.4 itself -
Enabled MiMa checks to CI setup and officially support early semantic versioning since this release
-
Documentation improvements
-
Added support for Scala Native on Scala 3
-
Restored binary compatibility in
os.copy
andos.copy.into
to os-lib versions before 0.7.5
-
Add support for Scala 3.0.0
-
Add support for Scala 3.0.0-RC3
-
Re-added support for Scala 2.11
-
Added new option
mergeFolders
toos.copy
-
os.copy now honors
followLinks
when copying symbolic links to directories
-
Add support for Scala 3.0.0-RC2
-
Add support for Scala 3.0.0-RC1
-
Migration of the CI system from Travis CI to GitHub Actions
-
Add support for Scala 3.0.0-M3
-
Improve performance of
os.write
by buffering output stream to files
-
Moved the
os.Bytes
,os.StreamValue
(now namedByteData
) interfaces intogeny
package, for sharing with Requests-Scala -
Add
os.read.stream
function, that returns ageny.Readable
-
os.Source
now supports any data type that isgeny.Writable
-
Added a new
os.SubPath
data type, for safer handling of sub-paths within a directory. -
Removed
os.proc.stream
, since you can now customize thestdout
orstderr
ofos.proc.call
to handle output in a streaming fashion -
stderr
inos.proc.call
andos.proc.spawn
defaults toos.Inherit
rather thanos.Pipe
; pass instderr = os.Pipe
explicitly to get back the old behavior -
Fix timeout not working with
os.proc.call
#27 -
Attempt to fix crasher accessing
os.pwd
#24 -
Added an os-lib-watch package, which can be used to efficiently recursively watch folders for updates #23
-
os.stat
no longer provides POSIX owner/permissions related metadata by default #15, useos.stat.posix
to fetch that separately -
os.stat.full
has been superseded byos.stat
andos.stat.posix
-
Removed
os.BasicStatInfo
, which has been superseded byos.StatInfo
-
Support for Scala 2.13.0 final
-
os.ProcessOutput
trait is no longer sealed
-
Narrow return type of
readLink.absolute
fromFilePath
toPath
-
Fix handling of standaline
\r
inos.SubProcess#stdout.readLine
-
Remove
os.StatInfo#name
,os.BasicStatInfo#name
andos.FullStatInfo#name
, since it is just the last path segment of the stat call and doesn’t properly reflect the actual name of the file on disk (e.g. on case-insensitive filesystems) -
os.walk.attrs
andos.walk.stream.attrs
now provides aos.BasicFileInfo
to theskip
predicate. -
Add
os.BasePath#baseName
, which returns the section of the path before theos.BasePath#ext
extension.
-
New
os.readLink
/os.readLink.absolute
methods to read the contents of symbolic links without dereferencing them. -
New
os.read.chunked(p: Path, chunkSize: Int): os.Generator[(Array[Byte], Int)]
method for conveniently iterating over chunks of a file -
New
os.truncate(p: Path, size: Int)
method -
SubProcess
streams now implementjava.io.DataInput
/DataOutput
for convenience -
SubProcess
streams are now synchronized for thread-safety -
os.write
now hascreateFolders
default tofalse
-
os.Generator
now has a.withFilter
method -
os.symlink
now allows relative paths -
os.remove.all
now properly removes broken symlinks, and no longer recurses into the symlink’s contents -
os.SubProcess
now implementsjava.lang.AutoCloseable
-
New
write.channel
counterpart toread.channel
(andwrite.over.channel
andwrite.append.channel
) -
os.PermSet
is now modelled internally as a boxedInt
for performance, and is a case class with properequals
/hashcode
-
os.read.bytes(arg: Path, offset: Long, count: Int)
no longer leaks open file channels -
Reversed the order of arguments in
os.symlink
andos.hardlink
, to match the order of the underlying java NIO functions.
-
Allow chaining of multiple subprocesses
stdin
/stdout
-
First release