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NAME

abs2rel - convert an absolute path to a relative path

rel2abs - convert a relative path to an absolute path

realpath - convert a logical path to a physical path (resolve symlinks)

splitpath - split a path in to volume, directory and filename components

joinpath - join volume, directory, and filename components to form a path

splitdirs - split directory specification in to component names

joindirs - join component names in to a directory specification

setfstype - set the file system type


SYNOPSIS

    use File::PathConvert qw(realpath abs2rel rel2abs setfstype splitpath 
      joinpath splitdirs joindirs $resolved);

    $relpath = abs2rel($abspath);
    $abspath = abs2rel($abspath, $base);

    $abspath = rel2abs($relpath);
    $abspath = rel2abs($relpath, $base);

    $path = realpath($logpath) || die "resolution stopped at $resolved";

    ( $volume, $directory, $filename )= splitpath( $path ) ;
    ( $volume, $directory, $filename )= splitpath( $path, 'nofile' ) ;

    $path= joinpath( $volume, $directory, $filename ) ;

    @directories= splitdirs( $directory ) ;
    $directory= joindirs( @directories ) ;


DESCRIPTION

File::PathConvert provides functions to convert between absolute and relative paths, and from logical paths to physical paths on a variety of filesystems, including the URL 'filesystem'.

Paths are decomposed internally in to volume, directory, and, sometimes filename portions as appropriate to the operation and filesystem, then recombined. This preserves the volume and filename portions so that they may be returned, and prevents them from interfering with the path conversions.

Here are some examples of path decomposition. A '****' in a column indicates the column is not used in abs2rel and rel2abs functions for that filesystem type.

    FS      VOLUME                  Directory       filename
    ======= ======================= =============== =============
    URL     http:                   /a/b/           c?query
            http://fubar.com        /a/b/           c?query
            //p.d.q.com             /a/b/c/         ?query

    VMS     Server::Volume:         [a.b]           c
            Server"access spec"::   [a.b]           c
            Volume:                 [a.b]           c

    Win32   A:                      \a\b\c          ****
            \\server\Volume         \a\b\c          ****
            \\server\Volume         \a/b/c          ****

    Unix    ****                    \a\b\c          ****

    MacOS   Volume::                a:b:c           ****

Many more examples abound in the test.pl included with this module.

Only the VMS and URL filesystems indicate if the last name in a path is a directory or file. For other filesystems, all non-volume names are assumed to be directory names. For URLs, the last name in a path is assumed to be a filename unless it ends in '/'.

Other assumptions are made as well, especially MacOS and VMS. THESE MAY CHANGE BASED ON PROGRAMMER FEEDBACK!

The conversion routines abs2rel, rel2abs, and realpath are the main focus of this package. splitpath and joinpath are provided to allow volume oriented filesystems (almost anything non-unixian, actually) to be accomodated. splitdirs and joindirs provide directory path grammar parsing and encoding, which is especially useful for VMS.

setfstype
This is called automatically on module load to set the filesystem type according to $^O. The user can call this later set the filesystem type manually. If the name is not recognized, unix defaults are used. Names matching /^URL$/i, /^VMS$/i, /^MacOS$/i, or /^(ms)?(win|dos)/32|nt)?$/i yield the appropriate (hopefully) filesystem settings. These strings may be generalized in the future.

Examples:

    File::PathConvert::setfstype( 'url' ) ; 
    File::PathConvert::setfstype( 'Win32' ) ;
    File::PathConvert::setfstype( 'HAL9000' ) ; # Results in Unix default

abs2rel
abs2rel converts an absolute path name to a relative path: converting /1/2/3/a/b/c relative to /1/2/3 returns a/b/c

    $relpath= abs2rel( $abspath ) ;
    $relpath= abs2rel( $abspath, $base ) ;

If $abspath is already relative, it is returned unchanged. Otherwise the relative path from $base to $abspath is returned. If $base is undefined the current directory is used.

The volume and filename portions of $base are ignored if present. If $abspath and $base are on different volumes, the volume from $abspath is used.

No filesystem calls are made except for getting the current working directory if $base is undefined, so symbolic links are not checked for or resolved, and no check is done for existance.

Examples

    # Unix
    'a/b/c' == abs2rel( 'a/b/c', $anything )
    'a/b/c' == abs2rel( '/1/2/3/a/b/c', '/1/2/3' )

    # DOS
    'a\\b/c' == abs2rel( 'a\\b/c', $anything )
    'a\\b/c' == abs2rel( '/1\\2/3/a\\b/c', '/1/2/3' )

    # URL
    'http:a/b/c'           == abs2rel( 'http:a/b/c', $anything ) 
    'http:a/b/c'           == abs2rel( 'http:/1/2/3/a/b/c',
                                       'ftp://t.org/1/2/3/?z' )
    'http:a/b/c?q'         == abs2rel( 'http:/1/2/3/a/b/c/?q',
                                       'ftp://t.org/1/2/3?z'  )
    'http://s.com/a/b/c?q' == abs2rel( 'http://s.com/1/2/3/a/b/c?q',
                                       'ftp://t.org/1/2/3/?z')

rel2abs
rel2abs makes converts a relative path name to an absolute path: converting a/b/c relative to /1/2/3 returns /1/2/3/a/b/c.

    $abspath= rel2abs( $relpath ) ;
    $abspath= rel2abs( $relpath, $base ) ;

If $relpath is already absolute, it is returned unchanged. Otherwise $relpath is taken to be relative to $base and the resulting absolute path is returned. If $base is not supplied, the current working directory is used.

The volume portion of $relpath is ignored. The filename portion of $base is also ignored. The volume from $base is returned if present. The filename portion of $abspath is returned if present.

No filesystem calls are made except for getting the current working directory if $base is undefined, so symbolic links are not checked for or resolved, and no check is done for existance.

Examples

    # Unix
    '/a/b/c'       == rel2abs( '/a/b/c', $anything )
    '/1/2/3/a/b/c' == rel2abs( 'a/b/c', '/1/2/3' )

    # DOS
    '\\a\\b/c'                == rel2abs( '\\a\\b/c', $anything )
    '/1\\2/3\\a\\b/c'         == rel2abs( 'a\\b/c', '/1\\2/3' )
    'C:/1\\2/3\\a\\b/c'       == rel2abs( 'D:a\\b/c', 'C:/1\\2/3' )
    '\\\\s\\v/1\\2/3\\a\\b/c' == rel2abs( 'D:a\\b/c', '\\\\s\\v/1\\2/3' )

    # URL
    'http:/a/b/c?q'            == rel2abs( 'http:/a/b/c?q', $anything )
    'ftp://t.org/1/2/3/a/b/c?q'== rel2abs( 'http:a/b/c?q',
                                           'ftp://t.org/1/2/3?z' )

realpath
realpath makes a canonicalized absolute pathname and resolves all symbolic links, extra ``/'' characters, and references to /./ and /../ in the path. realpath resolves both absolute and relative paths. It returns the resolved name on success, otherwise it returns undef and sets the valiable $File::PathConvert::resolved to the pathname that caused the problem.

All but the last component of the path must exist.

This implementation is based on 4.4BSD realpath(3). It is not tested under other operating systems at this time.

If '/sys' is a symbolic link to '/usr/src/sys':

    chdir('/usr');
    '/usr/src/sys/kern' == realpath('../sys/kern');
    '/usr/src/sys/kern' == realpath('/sys/kern');

splitpath
To be written...

joinpath
To be written...

splitdirs
To be written...

joindirs


BUGS

realpath is not fully multiplatform.


LIMITATIONS


AUTHORS

Barrie Slaymaker Shigio Yamaguchi

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.