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Questions tagged [pathname]

Anything related to pathnames. A pathname is a symbolic, hierarchical representation of the location of a file (or other resource) in a filesystem encoded as a string. The rules governing the syntax of pathnames differ among OSes (and sometimes among filesystems). Here is an example for Linux: "/home/user/foo/bar/hello.pdf" and one for Windows: "D:\data\foo\bar\hello.pdf"

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What is the convention for Lisp filename extension?

".el" is the convention for filename ending with Emacs Lisp programs. What is the convention when writing Common Lisp programs, please?
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Getting full URL with jQuery including parameters after question mark?

I am trying to use jQuery to get the current full URL of a page. The URL of a page looks like this: http://myurl.com/ebook?page=43 If I use window.location.pathname it only returns everything before the ? so I would just get…
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JQuery Detect If in Homepage and Homepage PLUS url Variables

I am using this code to detect the homepage and it works great: var url= window.location.href; if(url.split("/").length>3){ alert('You are in the homepage'); } My problem is that I also need to detect if the url has variables for…
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What is path //, how is it different from /

We know root directory is /, and according to posix, there is another directory // which differs from /. When you ls / and ls //, the output is the same, so as stat, however if you cd / and cd //, they are different, though the directory content are…
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How to find an EXE's install location - the proper way?

I am making a software in C# and MATLAB that calls another software (CMG) to do some processing. My problem is that the address of the software I have put in my program is only correct on my personal computer and not on the customers' computers (I…
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Linux CLI - How to get substring from JSON jq + grep?

I need to pull a substring from JSON. In the JSON doc below, I need the end of the value of jq '.[].networkProfile.networkInterfaces[].id' In other words, I need just A10NICvw4konls2vfbw-data to pass to another command. I can't seem to figure out…
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Getting a mp3 file to play using javafx

I have spent hours today looking up how to get some form of audio in eclipse and have had trouble every step of the way. Currently I have something that should work but I get an error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:…
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Difference between forward and backslash

What is the difference in using a forward slash and backslash in navigating file systems. Also what is the difference between ./ and ../?
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How to check whether a File exists

I have an Array of Strings and I want to select only these Strings which are paths to files: My path is "~/dlds/some_file.ics" where ~/dlds is a symlink to ~/archive/downloads on my system. The file has following permissions: -rw-r--r-- My code (I…
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bat file: get parent pathname

The following mostly works. 'Mostly', because the use of the SOMETHING..\tasks\ pathname confuses Spring when a context XML file tries to include another by relative pathname. So, what I seem to need is a way, in a BAT file, of setting a variable to…
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How to handle filenames with spaces?

I use Perl on windows(Active Perl). I have a perl program to glob the files in current folder, and concatenate them all using dos copy command called from within using system()... When i execute, this gives a dos error saying "The system cannot find…
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jQuery if Location.Pathname contains

I am currently using the following code to target individual pages such as http://my-website.com/about/ if (document.location.pathname == "/about/") { //Code goes here } I am wondering how to do the same for all pages that have a…
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how do I create a file object from an absolute pathname?

I think my problem will take some explaining of the background. My assignment is to create a basic server that will send HTML files on my system that clients request. I was told to test my server by just entering localhost:8080/index.html in my…
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Using folder pathname, save all image files and file names

I trying to create a 360 degree animation from In Design-to-HTML conversion. I get the folder name, and inside that folder are 50 to 80 images. I need to save those images in my folder, and to save each image name inside the script. Here's my…
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Javascript pathname referrer

How can do the same function in javascript that is document.location.pathname - except with the referrer? so something like document.referrer.pathname? Thanks.
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