Using Paths

Catscript is implemented with fs2-io, and one of the abstraction it provides is Path. It represents a path to a file or a directory.

You can start using Path's by importing the type from the library:

import fs2.io.file.Path

Creating a Path

The recommended way for creating a Path is using the apply method of the companion object:

val path = Path("path/to/a/file/or/directory")
// path: Path = path/to/a/file/or/directory

Once you did that, you can combine paths using some convenience methods:

val parent = Path("parent/dir")
// parent: Path = parent/dir

val child = Path("child/dir")
// child: Path = child/dir

parent / child / "some/more/locations"
// res0: Path = parent/dir/child/dir/some/more/locations

Note that these paths are compatible with the Java NIO paths, so you can use them interchangeably by calling the toNioPath value.