FileInfo Service

The FileInfo service offers various operations on file paths, such as turning absolute paths into relative ones, splitting a path into its components, and so on.

Available Operations

baseName


  FileInfo.baseName(filePath: string): string

Returns the file name of filePath up to (but not including) the first '.' character.

cleanPath


  FileInfo.cleanPath(filePath: string): string

Returns filePath without redundant separators and with resolved occurrences of . and .. components. For instance, /usr/local//../bin/ becomes /usr/bin.

completeBaseName


  FileInfo.completeBaseName(filePath: string): string

Returns the file name of filePath up to (but not including) the last '.' character.

completeSuffix


  FileInfo.completeSuffix(filePath: string): string

Returns the file suffix of filePath from (but not including) the last '.' character.

This function was introduced in version 1.12.

fileName


  FileInfo.fileName(filePath: string): string

Returns the last component of filePath, that is, everything after the last '/' character.

fromNativeSeparators


  FileInfo.fromNativeSeparators(filePath: string): string

On Windows hosts, this function behaves the same as fromWindowsSeparators. On other operating systems, it returns the input unmodified.

fromWindowsSeparators


  FileInfo.fromWindowsSeparators(filePath: string): string

Returns filePath with all '\' characters replaced by '/'.

isAbsolutePath


  FileInfo.isAbsolutePath(filePath: string, hostOS?: string[]): boolean

Returns true if filePath is an absolute path and false if it is a relative one. If hostOS is specified, treats filePath as a file path of the kind found on that platform. This parameter defaults to the host OS on which Qbs is running and should normally be omitted.

joinPaths


  FileInfo.joinPaths(...paths: string[]): string

Concatenates the given paths using the '/' character.

path


  FileInfo.path(filePath: string, hostOS?: string[]): string

Returns the part of filePath that is not the file name, that is, everything up to (but not including) the last '/' character. If filePath is just a file name, then '.' is returned. If filePath ends with a '/' character, then the file name is assumed to be empty for the purpose of the above definition. If hostOS is specified, treats filePath as a file path of the kind found on that platform. This parameter defaults to the host OS on which Qbs is running and should normally be omitted.

relativePath


  FileInfo.relativePath(dirPath: string, filePath: string): string

Returns a relative path so that joining dirPath and the returned path results in filePath. If necessary, '..' components are inserted. The function assumes dirPath and filePath to be absolute paths and dirPath to be a directory.

suffix


  FileInfo.suffix(filePath: string): string

Returns the file suffix of filePath from (but not including) the first '.' character.

This function was introduced in version 1.12.

toNativeSeparators


  FileInfo.toNativeSeparators(filePath: string): string

On Windows hosts, this function behaves the same as toWindowsSeparators. On other operating systems, it returns the input unmodified.

toWindowsSeparators


  FileInfo.toWindowsSeparators(filePath: string): string

Returns filePath with all '/' characters replaced by '\'.