NAME

Shell::Command - provide cross-platform routines emulating common *NIX shell commands

SYNOPSIS

use Shell::Command;

# Recursive folder copy
cp 't/dir1', 't/dir2', :r;

# Remove a file
rm_f 'to_delete';

# Remove directory
rmdir 't/dupa/foo/bar';

# Make path
mkpath 't/dir2';

# Remove path
rm_rf 't/dir2';

# Find Raku in executable path
my $raku-path = which('raku');

# Concatenate the contents of a file or list of files and print to STDOUT
cat "file1.txt", "file2.txt";

# A cross platfrom syncronous run()
my $command = $*DISTRO.is-win ?? 'binary.exe' !! 'binary';
run-command($binary, 'some', 'parameter');

AUTHOR

Tadeusz Sośnierz

Source can be located at: https://github.com/raku-community-modules/Shell-Command . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

CONTRIBUTORS

• Dagur Valberg Johansson

• Elizabeth Mattijsen

• Filip Sergot

• Geoffrey Broadwell

• GlitchMr

• Heather

• Kamil Kułaga

• Moritz Lenz

• Steve Mynott

• Timo Paulssen

• Tobias Leich

• Tim Smith

• Ahmad M. Zawawi (azawawi @ #raku)

• Martin Barth

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2010-2017 Tadeusz Sośnierz

Copyright 2023-2025 Raku Community

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the MIT license.

Please see the LICENCE file in the distribution

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