Path

    Use to use this module. The following methods are provided:

    Normalize a string path, taking care of '..' and '.' parts.

    When multiple slashes are found, they’re replaced by a single one;
    when the path contains a trailing slash, it is preserved.
    On Windows backslashes are used.

    Example:

    1. path.normalize('/foo/bar//baz/asdf/quux/..')
    2. // returns
    3. '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'

    path.join([path1][, path2][, …])

    Join all arguments together and normalize the resulting path.

    Arguments must be strings. In v0.8, non-string arguments were
    silently ignored. In v0.10 and up, an exception is thrown.

    Example:

    1. path.join('/foo', 'bar', 'baz/asdf', 'quux', '..')
    2. // returns
    3. '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'
    5. path.join('foo', {}, 'bar')
    6. // throws exception
    7. TypeError: Arguments to path.join must be strings

    path.resolve([from …], to)

    Resolves to to an absolute path.

    If to isn’t already absolute from arguments are prepended in right to left
    order, until an absolute path is found. If after using all from paths still
    no absolute path is found, the current working directory is used as well. The
    resulting path is normalized, and trailing slashes are removed unless the path
    gets resolved to the root directory. Non-string from arguments are ignored.

    Another way to think of it is as a sequence of cd commands in a shell.

    1. path.resolve('foo/bar', '/tmp/file/', '..', 'a/../subfile')

    Is similar to:

    1. cd foo/bar
    2. cd /tmp/file/
    3. cd ..
    4. cd a/../subfile
    5. pwd

    Examples:

    1. path.resolve('/foo/bar', './baz')
    2. // returns
    4. path.resolve('/foo/bar', '/tmp/file/')
    5. // returns
    6. '/tmp/file'
    8. path.resolve('wwwroot', 'static_files/png/', '../gif/image.gif')
    9. // if currently in /home/myself/node, it returns

    path.isAbsolute(path)

    Determines whether path is an absolute path. An absolute path will always
    resolve to the same location, regardless of the working directory.

    Posix examples:

    Windows examples:

    1. path.isAbsolute('//server')  // true
    2. path.isAbsolute('C:/foo/..') // true
    3. path.isAbsolute('bar\\baz')   // false
    4. path.isAbsolute('.')         // false

    Solve the relative path from from to to.

    At times we have two absolute paths, and we need to derive the relative
    path from one to the other. This is actually the reverse transform of
    path.resolve, which means we see that:

    1. path.resolve(from, path.relative(from, to)) == path.resolve(to)

    Examples:

    1. path.relative('C:\\orandea\\test\\aaa', 'C:\\orandea\\impl\\bbb')
    2. // returns
    3. '..\\..\\impl\\bbb'
    5. path.relative('/data/orandea/test/aaa', '/data/orandea/impl/bbb')
    6. // returns
    7. '../../impl/bbb'

    path.dirname(p)

    Return the directory name of a path. Similar to the Unix dirname command.

    Example:

    1. path.dirname('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux')
    2. // returns
    3. '/foo/bar/baz/asdf'

    path.basename(p[, ext])

    Return the last portion of a path. Similar to the Unix basename command.

    Example:

    1. path.basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html')
    2. // returns
    3. 'quux.html'
    5. path.basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html', '.html')
    6. // returns
    7. 'quux'

    path.extname(p)

    The platform-specific file separator. '\\' or '/'.

    An example on *nix:

    1. 'foo/bar/baz'.split(path.sep)
    2. // returns

    An example on Windows:

    1. 'foo\\bar\\baz'.split(path.sep)
    3. ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']

    path.delimiter

    The platform-specific path delimiter, ; or ':'.

    An example on *nix:

    1. console.log(process.env.PATH)
    2. // '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin'
    4. process.env.PATH.split(path.delimiter)
    5. // returns
    6. ['/usr/bin', '/bin', '/usr/sbin', '/sbin', '/usr/local/bin']

    An example on Windows:

    1. console.log(process.env.PATH)
    2. // 'C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files\nodejs\'
    4. process.env.PATH.split(path.delimiter)
    5. // returns
    6. ['C:\\Windows\\system32', 'C:\\Windows', 'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\']

    path.parse(pathString)

    Returns an object from a path string.

    An example on *nix:

    1. path.parse('/home/user/dir/file.txt')
    2. // returns
    3. {
    4.     root : "/",
    5.     dir : "/home/user/dir",
    6.     base : "file.txt",
    7.     ext : ".txt",
    8.     name : "file"
    9. }

    An example on Windows:

    path.format(pathObject)

    Returns a path string from an object, the opposite of path.parse above.

    1. path.format({
    2.     root : "/",
    3.     dir : "/home/user/dir",
    4.     base : "file.txt",
    5.     ext : ".txt",
    6.     name : "file"
    7. })
    8. // returns

    Provide access to aforementioned methods but always interact in a posix
    compatible way.

    path.win32