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Absolute child is error prone

See original GitHub issue

“append” an absolute child is error prone, and not consistent with Bash.

import better.files._
import better.files.File.home

val bashrc = home / ".bashrc"    
// --> /home/user/.bashrc

val bashrcBak = file"/tmp/aBackupDir" / (bashrc.pathAsString + ".bak")
// --> /home/user/.bashrc.bak
// Not /tmp/aBackupDir//home/user/.bashrc.bak
// Not /tmp/aBackupDir/home/user/.bashrc.bak

With Bash : /tmp/aBackupDir//home/user/.bashrc.bak

$ cat "/tmp/aBackupDir"/"/home/user/.bashrc.bak"
cat: /tmp/aBackupDir//home/user/.bashrc.bak: No such file or directory

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Created 7 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:8 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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pathikritcommented, Nov 10, 2016

I think we need to implement a typed path for relative and absolute paths to prevent stuff like this

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jvicancommented, Mar 8, 2017

Aha, so you already did! @jaa127 😉

Cool to see this merged. We have some other issues that you may want to play around with – we’re currently trying to prepare for a release in the Scala Platform, the next community-maintained Scala library that will replace the current standard library in 2.13.