Get Fullpath or Convert to Fullpath

Get fullpath or convert to fullpath

If "MacOS" is the name of your current startup disk then "/Volumes/MacOS" is a symbolic link to "/", so both "/fasttemp/Fotos/2005/" and "/Volumes/MacOS/fasttemp/Fotos/" are absolute paths to the same file.

In order to get a unique file name representation you can query
a URL for its canonical path. Example:

let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/Volumes/MacOS/Applications/Utilities/")
if let cp = (try? url.resourceValues(forKeys: [.canonicalPathKey]))?.canonicalPath {
    print(cp)
}
// Output: "/Applications/Utilities"

This requires macOS 10.12/iOS 10 or later. On older systems you can
use the realpath() system call:

if let rp = url.withUnsafeFileSystemRepresentation ({ realpath($0, nil) }) {
    let fullUrl = URL(fileURLWithFileSystemRepresentation: rp, isDirectory: true, relativeTo: nil)
    free(rp)
    print(fullUrl.path)
}
// Output: "/Applications/Utilities"

How to retrieve absolute path given relative

use:

find "$(pwd)"/ -type f

to get all files or

echo "$(pwd)/$line"

to display full path (if relative path matters to)

Convert Relative Path to Absolute Path

You need to use Path.GetFullPath() to have the upper directory "../../" taken into account, see below :

string exeFile = new System.Uri(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().CodeBase).AbsolutePath;
string Dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(exeFile);
string path = Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(Dir, @"..\..\Help\Help.txt"));
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(path);

Per the MSDN of GetFullPath : Returns the absolute path for the specified path string.
Whereas Path.Combine Combines strings into a path.

Resolve absolute path from relative path and/or file name

In batch files, as in standard C programs, argument 0 contains the path to the currently executing script. You can use %~dp0 to get only the path portion of the 0th argument (which is the current script) - this path is always a fully qualified path.

You can also get the fully qualified path of your first argument by using %~f1, but this gives a path according to the current working directory, which is obviously not what you want.

Personally, I often use the %~dp0%~1 idiom in my batch file, which interpret the first argument relative to the path of the executing batch. It does have a shortcoming though: it miserably fails if the first argument is fully-qualified.

If you need to support both relative and absolute paths, you can make use of Frédéric Ménez's solution: temporarily change the current working directory.

Here's an example that'll demonstrate each of these techniques:

@echo off
echo %%~dp0 is "%~dp0"
echo %%0 is "%0"
echo %%~dpnx0 is "%~dpnx0"
echo %%~f1 is "%~f1"
echo %%~dp0%%~1 is "%~dp0%~1"

rem Temporarily change the current working directory, to retrieve a full path 
rem   to the first parameter
pushd .
cd %~dp0
echo batch-relative %%~f1 is "%~f1"
popd

If you save this as c:\temp\example.bat and the run it from c:\Users\Public as

c:\Users\Public>\temp\example.bat ..\windows

...you'll observe the following output:

%~dp0 is "C:\temp\"
%0 is "\temp\example.bat"
%~dpnx0 is "C:\temp\example.bat"
%~f1 is "C:\Users\windows"
%~dp0%~1 is "C:\temp\..\windows"
batch-relative %~f1 is "C:\Windows"

the documentation for the set of modifiers allowed on a batch argument can be found here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/call

Get full path and convert to constant

A constant has to be known at compile time. It can't depend on the return value of a function.

You'll need to use SetDllDirectory to add the Steam path to the DLL search path:

[DllImport("kernel32")]
static extern bool SetDllDirectory(string lpPathName);
string SteamPath = Microsoft.Win32.Registry.GetValue(@"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Valve\Steam", "InstallPath", null) + @"\steamapps\common\mygame\steam_api64";
SetDllDirectory(SteamPath); 

[DllImport("steam_api64")]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.I1)]
public static extern bool SteamAPI_Init();

How to get an absolute file path in Python

>>> import os
>>> os.path.abspath("mydir/myfile.txt")
'C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt'

Also works if it is already an absolute path:

>>> import os
>>> os.path.abspath("C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt")
'C:/example/cwd/mydir/myfile.txt'

How to convert a relative path to an absolute path in a Windows application?

Have you tried:

string absolute = Path.GetFullPath(relative);

? Note that that will use the current working directory of the process, not the directory containing the executable. If that doesn't help, please clarify your question.

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