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Macaulay2Doc :: toAbsolutePath

toAbsolutePath -- the absolute path version of a file name

Synopsis

Description

i1 : toAbsolutePath "a/b.m2"

o1 = /private/tmp/macaulay2-20230627-3072-8ygk79/M2-release-1.22/M2/BUILD/
     build-brew/Macaulay2/packages/a/b.m2

Paths of the form foo/x/../bar, are shortened to foo/bar without checking the file system to see whether x is a symbolic link. For the other behavior, see realpath.

See also

For the programmer

The object toAbsolutePath is a function closure.