-- TO USE, PUT THE INTERIOR OF THIS FUNCTION IN YOUR FILE -- this only works if that file is in the same directory as this one - but works no matter where it was called from local function _example_load() local success, utility = pcall(function() return dofile((arg[0]:match("@?(.*/)") or arg[0]:match("@?(.*\\)")) .. "utility-functions.lua") end) if not success then print("\n\n" .. tostring(utility)) error("\n\nThis script may be installed improperly. Follow instructions at:\n\thttps://github.com/TangentFoxy/.lua-files#installation\n") end end math.randomseed(os.time()) local utility = {} if package.config:sub(1, 1) == "\\" then utility.OS = "Windows" else utility.OS = "UNIX-like" end utility.path = arg[0]:match("@?(.*/)") or arg[0]:match("@?(.*\\)") -- inspired by discussion in https://stackoverflow.com/q/6380820 -- always uses outputting to a temporary file to guarantee safety function os.capture_safe(command, tmp_file_name) local file_name = tmp_file_name or utility.tmp_file_name() os.execute(command .. " > " .. file_name) local file = io.open(file_name, "r") local output = file:read("*all") file:close() os.execute("rm " .. file_name) -- NOTE may not work on all systems, I have a version somewhere that always does return output end function os.capture(command) if io.popen then local file = assert(io.popen(command, 'r')) local output = assert(file:read('*all')) file:close() return output else print("WARNING: io.popen not available, using a temporary file to receive output from:\n", command) return os.capture_safe(command) end end -- trim6 from Lua users wiki (best all-round pure Lua performance) function string.trim(s) return s:match'^()%s*$' and '' or s:match'^%s*(.*%S)' end utility.require = function(name) local success, package_or_err = pcall(function() return dofile((arg[0]:match("@?(.*/)") or arg[0]:match("@?(.*\\)")) .. name .. ".lua") end) if success then return package_or_err else print("\n\n" .. tostring(package_or_err)) error("\n\nThis script may be installed improperly. Follow instructions at:\n\thttps://github.com/TangentFoxy/.lua-files#installation\n") end end -- errors if specified program isn't in the path utility.required_program = function(name) local command if utility.OS == "Windows" then command = "where " -- NOTE: This will print a path when it works. :\ Windows, am I right? else command = "which " end -- TODO verify this works on Linux / macOS if os.execute(command .. tostring(name)) ~= 0 then error("\n\n" .. tostring(name) .. " must be installed and in the path\n") end end -- modified from my fork of lume utility.uuid = function() local fn = function(x) local r = math.random(16) - 1 r = (x == "x") and (r + 1) or (r % 4) + 9 return ("0123456789abcdef"):sub(r, r) end return (("xxxxxxxx-xxxx-4xxx-yxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"):gsub("[xy]", fn)) end utility.tmp_file_name = function() return "." .. utility.uuid() .. ".tmp" end utility.escape_quotes = function(input) -- the order of these commands is important and must be preserved input = input:gsub("\\", "\\\\") input = input:gsub("\"", "\\\"") return input end -- Example, print all items in this directory: utility.ls(".")(print) utility.ls = function(path) local command if utility.OS == "Windows" then command = "dir /w /b" else command = "ls -1" end if path then command = command .. " \"" .. path .. "\"" end local tmp_file_name = utility.tmp_file_name() local output = os.capture_safe(command, tmp_file_name) return function(fn) for line in output:gmatch("[^\r\n]+") do -- thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/a/32847589 if line ~= tmp_file_name then -- exclude temporary file name fn(line) end end end end return utility