cosmos-explorer/src/Explorer/Notebook/FileSystemUtil.ts

/**
 * file list returns path starting with ./blah
 * rename returns simply blah.
 * Both are the same. This method only handles these two cases and no other complicated paths that may contain ..
 * ./ inside the path.
 * TODO: this should go away when not using jupyter for file operations and use normalized paths.
 * @param path1
 * @param path2
 */
export function isPathEqual(path1: string, path2: string): boolean {
  const normalize = (path: string): string => {
    const dotSlash = "./";
    if (path.indexOf(dotSlash) === 0) {
      path = path.substring(dotSlash.length);
    }
    return path;
  };

  return normalize(path1) === normalize(path2);
}

/**
 * Remove extension
 * @param path
 * @param extension Without the ".". e.g. "ipynb" (and not ".ipynb")
 */
export function stripExtension(path: string, extension: string): string {
  const splitted = path.split(".");
  if (splitted[splitted.length - 1] === extension) {
    splitted.pop();
  }
  return splitted.join(".");
}