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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 the file-path of the currently executing javascript code

I'm trying to do something like a C #include "filename.c", or PHP include(dirname(__FILE__)."filename.php") but in javascript. I know I can do this if I can get the URL a js file was loaded from (e.g. the URL given in the src attribute of the tag).…
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how to find the target file's full(absolute path) of the symbolic link or soft link in python

when i give ls -l /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-yes-bitmaps.conf lrwxrwxrwx /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-yes-bitmaps.conf -> ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf so for a symbolic link or soft link, how to find the target file's full(absolute path) in…
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constructing absolute path with os.path.join()

I'd like to construct an absolute path in python, while at the same time staying fairly oblivious of things like path-separator. edit0: for instance there is a directory on the root of my filesystem /etc/init.d (or C:\etc\init.d on w32), and I want…
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Converting relative path into absolute path?

I'm not sure if these paths are duplicates. Given the relative path, how do I determine absolute path using a shell script? Example: relative path: /x/y/../../a/b/z/../c/d absolute path: /a/b/c/d
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How can I get MSBUILD to evaluate and print the full path when given a relative path?

How can I get MSBuild to evaluate and print in a task an absolute path given a relative path? Property Group ..\..\..\Public\Server\ c:\Program Files (x86)\Program\ Task
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Do I need to pass the full path of a file in another directory to open()?

I have a folder with ten files in it which I want to loop through. When I print out the name of the file my code works fine: import os indir = '/home/des/test' for root, dirs, filenames in os.walk(indir): for f in filenames: …
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Symlink broken right after creation

I downloaded the linux Tor Browser package, which is a self-contained folder. I made a symlink to the run script: $ ln -s torbrowser/start-tor-browser ~/bin/torbrowser However, the link was broken upon creation. All I did was run that command,…
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Slash (/) vs tilde slash (~/) in style sheet path

ASP.NET offers two ways to specify paths for style sheets: (this is working) (this is not working) How are these…
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Relative instead of Absolute paths in Excel VBA

I have written an Excel VBA macro which imports data from a HTML file (stored locally) before performing calculations on the data. At the moment the HTML file is referred to with an absolute path: Workbooks.Open FileName:="C:\Documents and…
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Asp.Net Absolute Path of a URL

To make it simpler for a webapp to share files with another app on a different server, I'm using a base href tag in my master page. As many people have discovered, this breaks webform paths. I have a working Form Adaptor class but am not sure how…
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How to force an HTML link to be absolute?

In my website, users can put an URL in their profile. This URL can be http://www.google.com or www.google.com or google.com. If I just insert in my PHP code $url, the link is not always absolute. How can I force the a tag to be…
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PHP absolute path to root

I can't believe PHP doesn't have an easy solution for this simple matter. ASP.NET has a ~ sign that takes care of this issue and starts everything from the root level. Here's my problem: localhost/MySite -->Admin -- Edit.php -->Class …
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Get path of Android resource

My question is: is it possible to get the absolute path of a resource (in a subdirectory of the res/ folder) in Android? Most of the answers I see to this question on google suggest getting a file descriptor, implying that this is not possible. Is…
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Nodejs absolute paths in windows with forward slash

Can I have absolute paths with forward slashes in windows in nodejs? I am using something like this : global.__base = __dirname + '/'; var Article = require(__base + 'app/models/article'); But on windows the build is failing as it is requiring…
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src absolute path problem

I have an image in C:\wamp\www\site\img and i try to display it in a page with this: but it's not working.The file is actually there and if I try to refer to it with a relative path i got the…
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