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toAbsolutePath -- the absolute path version of a file name

Description

i1 : toAbsolutePath "a/b.m2"

o1 = /home/m2user/work/M2/M2/M2/BUILD/build/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.


The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/ov_system.m2:1351:0.