Cat ends up translating the path it receives from relative to absolute twice, which I fix by changing the filename to an absolute path before it's passed to getTextFile with a leading "/" so that it doesn't interpret the filename as being relative.
Read I fixed by causing getTextFile to remove the leading "/" from files that are in the root directory, since that is required to translate their name into the native "filesystem"s format.
As it currently stands, bringing in TSLint with *all* rules enabled by
default and override each as we go. This means that as we upgrade and
bring in new rules we might start seeing new rules that the code
violates.
Because all the rules are enabled by default, the choice to explicitly
disable/relax rules can be discussed as part of PRs.
This also brought in strict type checking. This means we shouldn't be
relying on truthy/falsey value coercion. It also means that we will
likely need to create some type definition files or port certain files
over. That...will be a bit tedious, but will make the codebase better as
a whole.
