# Functions for querying information about the filesystem # without copying any files to the Nix store. { lib }: # Tested in lib/tests/filesystem.sh let inherit (builtins) readDir pathExists ; inherit (lib.filesystem) pathType ; in { /* The type of a path. The path needs to exist and be accessible. The result is either "directory" for a directory, "regular" for a regular file, "symlink" for a symlink, or "unknown" for anything else. Type: pathType :: Path -> String Example: pathType /. => "directory" pathType /some/file.nix => "regular" */ pathType = builtins.readFileType or # Nix <2.14 compatibility shim (path: if ! pathExists path # Fail irrecoverably to mimic the historic behavior of this function and # the new builtins.readFileType then abort "lib.filesystem.pathType: Path ${toString path} does not exist." # The filesystem root is the only path where `dirOf / == /` and # `baseNameOf /` is not valid. We can detect this and directly return # "directory", since we know the filesystem root can't be anything else. else if dirOf path == path then "directory" else (readDir (dirOf path)).${baseNameOf path} ); /* Whether a path exists and is a directory. Type: pathIsDirectory :: Path -> Bool Example: pathIsDirectory /. => true pathIsDirectory /this/does/not/exist => false pathIsDirectory /some/file.nix => false */ pathIsDirectory = path: pathExists path && pathType path == "directory"; /* Whether a path exists and is a regular file, meaning not a symlink or any other special file type. Type: pathIsRegularFile :: Path -> Bool Example: pathIsRegularFile /. => false pathIsRegularFile /this/does/not/exist => false pathIsRegularFile /some/file.nix => true */ pathIsRegularFile = path: pathExists path && pathType path == "regular"; /* A map of all haskell packages defined in the given path, identified by having a cabal file with the same name as the directory itself. Type: Path -> Map String Path */ haskellPathsInDir = # The directory within to search root: let # Files in the root root-files = builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir root); # Files with their full paths root-files-with-paths = map (file: { name = file; value = root + "/${file}"; } ) root-files; # Subdirectories of the root with a cabal file. cabal-subdirs = builtins.filter ({ name, value }: builtins.pathExists (value + "/${name}.cabal") ) root-files-with-paths; in builtins.listToAttrs cabal-subdirs; /* Find the first directory containing a file matching 'pattern' upward from a given 'file'. Returns 'null' if no directories contain a file matching 'pattern'. Type: RegExp -> Path -> Nullable { path : Path; matches : [ MatchResults ]; } */ locateDominatingFile = # The pattern to search for pattern: # The file to start searching upward from file: let go = path: let files = builtins.attrNames (builtins.readDir path); matches = builtins.filter (match: match != null) (map (builtins.match pattern) files); in if builtins.length matches != 0 then { inherit path matches; } else if path == /. then null else go (dirOf path); parent = dirOf file; isDir = let base = baseNameOf file; type = (builtins.readDir parent).${base} or null; in file == /. || type == "directory"; in go (if isDir then file else parent); /* Given a directory, return a flattened list of all files within it recursively. Type: Path -> [ Path ] */ listFilesRecursive = # The path to recursively list dir: lib.flatten (lib.mapAttrsToList (name: type: if type == "directory" then lib.filesystem.listFilesRecursive (dir + "/${name}") else dir + "/${name}" ) (builtins.readDir dir)); }