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global address for a file, independent from the working directory of the calling process

An absolute (or full) path is the general form of the name of a file or directory that specifies a unique location in a file system. An absolute path contains the root directory and all other subfolders in which the requested file or folder is contained.

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How to get an absolute file path in Python

Given a path such as "mydir/myfile.txt", how do I find the file's absolute path in Python? E.g. on Windows, I might end up with: "C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt"
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Get filename and path from URI from mediastore

I have an onActivityResult returning from an mediastore image selection which I can get a URI for an image using the following: Uri selectedImage = data.getData(); Converting this to a string gives this: content://media/external/images/media/47 Or…
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How can I generate a list of files with their absolute path in Linux?

I am writing a shell script that takes file paths as input. For this reason, I need to generate recursive file listings with full paths. For example, the file bar has the path: /home/ken/foo/bar but, as far as I can see, both ls and find only give…
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Convert absolute path into relative path given a current directory using Bash

Example: absolute="/foo/bar" current="/foo/baz/foo" # Magic relative="../../bar" How do I create the magic (hopefully not too complicated code...)?
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ASP.NET MVC - Find Absolute Path to the App_Data folder from Controller

What is the correct way to find the absolute path to the App_Data folder from a Controller in an ASP.NET MVC project? I'd like to be able to temporarily work with an .xml file and I don't want to hardcode the path. This does not work: …
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Resolve absolute path from relative path and/or file name

Is there a way in a Windows batch script to return an absolute path from a value containing a filename and/or relative path? Given: "..\" "..\somefile.txt" I need the absolute path relative to the batch file. Example: "somefile.txt" is located in…
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Absolute paths (baseUrl) gives error: Cannot find module

I am setting a configuration to run my tests in a create-react-app + typescript app (from which I have ejected). I am using jest + enzyme. In my tsconfig.json I have set baseUrl='./src' so I can use absolute paths when I import modules. For example…
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What's a "canonical path"?

So, an absolute path is a way to get to a certain file or location describing the full route to it, the full path, and it's OS dependent (the absolute paths for Windows and Linux, for example, are different). A relative path, on the other hand, is a…
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NodeJS - convert relative path to absolute

In my File-system my working directory is here: C:\temp\a\b\c\d and under b\bb there's file: tmp.txt C:\temp\a\b\bb\tmp.txt If I want to go to this file from my working directory, I'll use this path: "../../bb/tmp.txt" In case the file is not exist…
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Expand a possible relative path in bash

As arguments to my script there are some file paths. Those can, of course, be relative (or contain ~). But for the functions I've written I need paths that are absolute, but do not have their symlinks resolved. Is there any function for this?
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Relative path to absolute path in C#?

I have xml files that contain href file paths to images (e.g. "....\images\image.jpg"). The hrefs contain relative paths. Now, I need to extract the hrefs to the images and turn them into absolute paths in the file system. I know about the…
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How to eliminate absolute path in zip archive if absolute paths for files are provided?

I have two files in two different directories, one is '/home/test/first/first.pdf', the other is '/home/text/second/second.pdf'. I use following code to compress them: import zipfile, StringIO buffer = StringIO.StringIO() first_path =…
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How to avoid using relative path imports (/../../../redux/action/action1) in create-react-app

I've been using create-react-app package for creating a react website. I was using relative paths throughout my app for importing components, resources, redux etc. eg, import action from '../../../redux/action I have tried using module-alis npm…
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Get absolute paths of all files in a directory

How do I get the absolute paths of all the files in a directory that could have many sub-folders in Python? I know os.walk() recursively gives me a list of directories and files, but that doesn't seem to get me what I want.
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How to use relative/absolute paths in css URLs?

I have a production and development server. The problem is the directory structure. Development:…
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