Pathname common_prefix

This file provides Pathname.common_prefix and Pathname#common_prefix which calculate the common prefix in the passed paths.

Installation

gem install pathname-common_prefix

or

git clone git@github.com:KitaitiMakoto/pathname-common_prefix.git
cd pathname-common_prefix
ruby setup.rb

Usage

Multiple pathnames

require 'pathname/common_prefix'

paths = %w[
  /full/path/to/somewhere
  /full/path/to/anywhere
  /full/path/to/nowhere
  /full/path/to/somewhere/else
].map {|path| Pathname(path)}

Pathname.common_prefix(*paths) # => #<Pathname:/full/path/to>

Absolute and relative paths

require 'pathname/common_prefix'

Pathname.common_prefix(Pathname('/absolute/path'), Pathname('relative/path')) # => nil

String arguments

require 'pathname/common_prefix'

paths = %w[
  path/to/somewhere
  path/to/anywhere
]

Pathname.common_prefix(*paths) # => #<Pathname:path/to>

Instance method

require 'pathname/common_prefix'

base = Pathname('/path/to/base/file')
other = Pathname('/path/to/other/file')
base.common_prefix(other) # => <Pathname:/path/to>

another = Pathname('/path/to-another/file')
base.common_prefix(other, another) # => <Pathname:/path>

Command-line tool

Via pipe(standard input):

$ tree book/
book/

From file:

$ cat paths
/path/to/somewhere
/path/to/anywhere
/path/to/nowhere
$ common-prefix paths
/path/to

Contributors

• @kachick

License

This program is distributed under the Ruby's license. But setup.rb is distributed under the GNU LGPL license. See the file for more information.