monerod-gui/app/auto-launch/library/fileBasedUtilities.ts

import * as os from 'os';
import * as fs from 'fs';

// Public: a few utils for file-based auto-launching

// This is essentially enabling auto-launching
// options - {Object}
//   :directory - {String}
//   :filePath - {String}
//   :data - {String}
// Returns a Promise
export function createFile({ directory, filePath, data }: { directory: string, filePath: string, data: string }): Promise<void> {
  return new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
    fs.mkdir(directory, { recursive: true }, (mkdirErr) => {
      if (mkdirErr != null) {
        return reject(mkdirErr);
      }
      return fs.writeFile(filePath, data, (writeErr) => {
        if (writeErr != null) {
          return reject(writeErr);
        }
        return resolve();
      });
    });
  });
}

// Verify auto-launch file exists or not
// filePath - {String}
// Returns a Promise
export function fileExists(filePath: string): Promise<boolean> {
  return new Promise<boolean>((resolve) => {
    fs.stat(filePath, (err, stat) => {
      if (err != null) {
        return resolve(false);
      }
      return resolve(stat != null);
    });
  });
}

// This is essentially disabling auto-launching
// filePath - {String}
// Returns a Promise
export function removeFile(filePath: string): Promise<void> {
  return new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
    fs.stat(filePath, (statErr) => {
      // If it doesn't exist, this is good so resolve
      if (statErr != null) {
        return resolve();
      }

      return fs.unlink(filePath, (unlinkErr) => {
        if (unlinkErr != null) {
          return reject(unlinkErr);
        }
        return resolve();
      });
    });
  });
}

// Escape reserved characters in path
// filePath - {String}
// Returns {String}
export function escapeFilePath(filePath: string): string {
  return filePath.replace(/(\s+)/g, '\\$1');
  //    return filePath.replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&'); // https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regex-escaping
}

export function untildify(pathWithTilde: string): string {
	const homeDirectory = os.homedir();
  
  if (typeof pathWithTilde !== 'string') {
		throw new TypeError(`Expected a string, got ${typeof pathWithTilde}`);
	}

	return homeDirectory ? pathWithTilde.replace(/^~(?=$|\/|\\)/, homeDirectory) : pathWithTilde;
}