Path manipulation tool inspired by Zsh parameter expansion modifiers.

Instead of chaining dirname, basename, and realpath, you can do:

pather -ahh /path/to/file.txt     # grandparent directory
pather -at ../relative/path       # absolute basename
pather -r file.tar.gz             # strip extension

macOS:

brew tap mattmc3/tools
brew install pather

On other systems clone this repository and put the pather Lua script in your path.

pather [-aAther] path [...]

Modifiers work like Zsh's ${var:a:h:t} syntax:

• -a absolute path
• -A absolute + resolve symlinks
• -t tail (basename)
• -h head (dirname)
• -e extension only
• -r remove extension

MIT