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# HPath
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[](http://travis-ci.org/hasufell/hpath)
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Support for well-typed paths in Haskell. Also provides ByteString based filepath
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manipulation.
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## Motivation
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The motivation came during development of
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[hsfm](https://github.com/hasufell/hsfm)
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which has a pretty strict File type, but lacks a strict Path type, e.g.
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for user input.
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The library that came closest to my needs was
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[path](https://github.com/chrisdone/path),
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but the API turned out to be oddly complicated for my use case, so I
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decided to fork it.
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Similarly, [posix-paths](https://github.com/JohnLato/posix-paths)
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was exactly what I wanted for the low-level operations, but upstream seems dead,
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so it is forked as well and merged into this library.
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## Goals
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* well-typed paths
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* high-level API to file operations like recursive directory copy
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* safe filepath manipulation, never using String as filepath, but ByteString
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* still allowing sufficient control to interact with the underlying low-level calls
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## Differences to 'path'
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* doesn't attempt to fake IO-related information into the path, so whether a path points to a file or directory is up to your IO-code to decide...
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* trailing path separators will be preserved if they exist, no messing with that
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* uses safe ByteString for filepaths under the hood instead of unsafe String
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* fixes broken [dirname](https://github.com/chrisdone/path/issues/18)
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* renames dirname/filename to basename/dirname to match the POSIX shell functions
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* introduces a new `Path Fn` for safe filename guarantees and a `RelC` class
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* allows pattern matching via unidirectional PatternSynonym
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* uses simple doctest for testing
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* allows `~/` as relative path, because on posix level `~` is just a regular filename that does _NOT_ point to `$HOME`
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* remove TH, it sucks
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## Differences to 'posix-paths'
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* `hasTrailingPathSeparator` behaves in the same way as `System.FilePath`
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* `dropTrailingPathSeparator` behaves in the same way as `System.FilePath`
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* added various functions like `isValid`, `normalise` and `equalFilePath`
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* uses the `word8` package for save word8 literals instead of `OverloadedStrings`
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* has custom versions of `openFd` and `getDirectoryContents`
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