Apropos

namestring, file-namestring, directory-namestring, host-namestring, enough-namestringFunction

    Syntax

    namestring pathname namestring

    file-namestring pathname namestring

    directory-namestring pathname namestring

    host-namestring pathname namestring

    enough-namestring pathname &optional defaults namestring

    Arguments and Values

    pathname — a pathname designator.

    defaults — a pathname designator. The default is the value of *default-pathname-defaults*.

    namestring — a string or nil.

    Description

    These functions convert pathname into a namestring. The name represented by pathname is returned as a namestring in an implementation-dependent canonical form.

    namestring returns the full form of pathname.

    file-namestring returns just the name, type, and version components of pathname.

    directory-namestring returns the directory name portion.

    host-namestring returns the host name.

    enough-namestring returns an abbreviated namestring that is just sufficient to identify the file named by pathname when considered relative to the defaults. It is required that

     (merge-pathnames (enough-namestring pathname defaults) defaults) 
     (merge-pathnames (parse-namestring pathname nil defaults) defaults)

    in all cases, and the result of enough-namestring is the shortest reasonable string that will satisfy this criterion.

    It is not necessarily possible to construct a valid namestring by concatenating some of the three shorter namestrings in some order.

    Examples
     (namestring "getty") 
     "getty" 
     (setq q (make-pathname :host "kathy" 
                             :directory 
                               (pathname-directory *default-pathname-defaults*) 
                             :name "getty")) 
     #S(PATHNAME :HOST "kathy" :DEVICE NIL :DIRECTORY directory-name 
           :NAME "getty" :TYPE NIL :VERSION NIL) 
     (file-namestring q)  "getty" 
     (directory-namestring q)  directory-name 
     (host-namestring q)  "kathy"
     ;;;Using Unix syntax and the wildcard conventions used by the 
     ;;;particular version of Unix on which this example was created: 
     (namestring 
       (translate-pathname "/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l" 
                           "/usr/d*/hacks/*.l" 
                           "/usr/d*/backup/hacks/backup-*.*")) 
     "/usr/dmr/backup/hacks/backup-frob.l" 
     (namestring 
       (translate-pathname "/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l" 
                           "/usr/d*/hacks/fr*.l" 
                           "/usr/d*/backup/hacks/backup-*.*")) 
     "/usr/dmr/backup/hacks/backup-ob.l" 
    
     ;;;This is similar to the above example but uses two different hosts, 
     ;;;U: which is a Unix and V: which is a VMS.  Note the translation 
     ;;;of file type and alphabetic case conventions. 
     (namestring 
       (translate-pathname "U:/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l" 
                           "U:/usr/d*/hacks/*.l" 
                           "V:SYS$DISK:[D*.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-*.*")) 
     "V:SYS$DISK:[DMR.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-FROB.LSP" 
     (namestring 
       (translate-pathname "U:/usr/dmr/hacks/frob.l" 
                           "U:/usr/d*/hacks/fr*.l" 
                           "V:SYS$DISK:[D*.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-*.*")) 
     "V:SYS$DISK:[DMR.BACKUP.HACKS]BACKUP-OB.LSP"
    See Also

    truename, merge-pathnames, pathname, logical-pathname, Section 20.1 (File System Concepts), Section 19.1.2 (Pathnames as Filenames)