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Asked: 2026-06-13T03:26:17+00:00

In Windows API there are a big set of methods for manipulating of paths

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In Windows API there are a big set of methods for manipulating of paths and URLs at Shell Path Handling Functions. The functions include helpers like PathAddBackslash, PathCanonicalize, PathCombine, and PathIsDirectory.

The question is: are there any Posix provided functionality or Linux-based library that gives analogous functionality? That is, simplifies paths combination, canonicalization, parsing, as well as URLs parsing?

I know that it is possible to write such functions with C++ (not small but not complex job), but my question is: are there any ready “official” libraries on Linux that already have similar functionality?

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    I am quite happy with boost_filesystem. Best part of it is that it is cross-platform, so it also works on Windows.

    Another possibility is leveraging the capabilities of Qt or GLIB (GTK+).

    Finally, most path-mangling operations are already in the POSIX standard and available out-of-the-box. For an example see the manpage of basename(3), dirname(3):
    http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/dirname.3.html

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