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+1 for Path::Class

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File::Fu?

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Easier, Eric, not more bizarre. :P

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Here's another way to look at this. I don't ever want to have to load a small legion of file modules just to do things I can do easily in shell. File::Copy, File::Basename, File::Find, File::Path, Shell::Command, IPC::Run off the top of my head.

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Let's say we turn off the "bizarre operators floating around wherever" and put the guts of the thing in Path::Fu, with a sub fu (&) {...} to enable the operator fu.

use Path::Fu;
my $file = fu {dir("something") / "subdir" + "filename.txt"};

is the same as:
my $file = dir("something")->subdir("subdir")->file("filename.txt");

And then you can get on to the important part of being able to do

my $libs = [Path::Fu->which("dpkg")->run("-L", "libxml2")->getlines]
  ->grep(λ{m{^/usr/lib/}})->map(λ{file($_)});

and such.

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I recently watched the 2010 OSDC talk on perl5i, and there's a bunch of examples along the lines of
$path_string->file->readline(func ($line) { print $line });

Are we any closer to this and is there a branch where this work left off that I should tinker with?
Cheers

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I started a project for that two years ago called Paths for the Grand Unified All In Wonder File And Directory Handling Module. There's a little code and a whole bunch of notes.
https://github.com/schwern/Paths/blob/master/NOTES

I've given you a commit bit on Paths. Please dust things off and go!

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The incorporation of Path::Tiny covers this nicely.

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