cross-platform-utils.bashlib

# Bash utility functions for BSD (Mac) and GNU (Linux, Mingw, CygWin)
# that shouldn't be necessary to reimplement
#
# We use aliases defined at startup rather than functions to avoid
# repeating the overhead of runtime detection each time a command is invoked
#
# Depends on is_mac from the startup functions

# marker that can be used to avoid re-import
export XPLATFORM_UTILS=1

# to make aliases expand in non-interactive sub-shells
shopt -s expand_aliases

# @returns 0 if running on mac, 1 if not 
function is_mac() {
  local cmd=`which uname`
  if [ -z $cmd ];then
    return 1
  else
    # dynamically redefines the function definition to avoid recomputing 
    if $cmd |grep Darwin 1>/dev/null; then
        is_mac(){ return 0; };
    else 
        is_mac(){ return 1; };
    fi
    is_mac
  fi
}

# Check if running Windows Subsystem for Linux
# @returns 0 if running WSL, 1 if not
function is_wsl() {
    local cmd=`which uname`
    # no point in checking further if uname is not present
    if [ -z $cmd ];then
        return 1
    else
        # dynamically redefines the function definition to avoid recomputing 
        if uname -a | grep microsoft 1>/dev/null; then
            is_wsl(){ return 0; };
        else 
            is_wsl(){ return 1; };
        fi
        is_wsl
    fi
}


if ! is_mac; then

    # Interpret regular expressions as extended (modern) regular expressions 
    # rather than basic regular expressions (BRE's).  The re_format(7) manual page fully describes both formats.
    alias util.esed='sed -r '

    # size in bytes
    alias util.size='stat -c %s -- '
else
    alias util.esed='sed -E '
    alias util.size='stat -Lf %z -- '
fi

alias text.delete_empty_line="sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d'"
alias text.trim="util.esed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//'"

function text.count(){
    grep -o "$1" | wc -l
}

# Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/12579554/200987
function text.remove-last-newline(){
    local file=$(mktemp)
    cat > $file
    if [[ $(tail -c1 $file | wc -l) == 1 ]]; then
        head -c -1 $file > $file.tmp
        mv $file.tmp $file
    fi
    cat $file
    rm $file&
}

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