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Path

This package contains functions that deal with paths. Right now there's only the FindRoot function. An example:

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/mssola/go-utils/path"
)

func main() {
	base := path.FindRoot("mssola", "/home/mssola/another/mssola/dir")
	fmt.Printf("%v\n", base) // => /home/mssola/another/mssola

	// We can also specify the current path with a ".".
	// In this example image that the current pwd is "/home/mssola/test"
	base = path.FindRoot("mssola", ".")
	fmt.Printf("%v\n", base) // => /home/mssola
}

Copyright © 2014-2015 Miquel Sabaté Solà, released under the MIT License.

Documentation

Index

• func FindRoot(root, current string) string

Functions

func FindRoot

func FindRoot(root, current string) string

Public: get the first absolute path that has the "root" parameter as its root from the perspective of the "current" path. The current path can be relative (e.g. "." is an accepted value). The returned path has no trailing slashes. Note that if no path was found, then "/" will be returned.

Example:

    FindRoot("mssola", "/home/mssola/another/mssola/dir")
-> returns "/home/mssola/another/mssola"

Returns a string containing the absolute path matching the confitions. Note that this works on UNIX systems. I haven't tested this on Windows.