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layout: page
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category-page: fs
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category-title: FileSystem
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tags: absolute relative path
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author: Marwan Announ
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2018-11-15 20:09:21 +00:00
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title: Relative paths
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2018-11-11 10:57:24 +00:00
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2018-11-12 12:04:46 +00:00
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2018-11-15 20:09:21 +00:00
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Relative path is defined as path related to the present working directory(pwd).<br>
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Suppose I am located in /home/user and I want to change directory to /home/user/Documents.<br>
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I can use relative path concept to change directory to Documents.
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2018-11-14 10:39:56 +00:00
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<pre>
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pwd
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/home/user
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cd Documents
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pwd
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/home/user/Documents
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</pre>
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If you observe, there is a little bit difference between absolute and relative paths:
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in relative paths there is no "/" at the very beginning.<br>
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Meanwhile in an absolute path you have to write "/", in this case it'd be "/home/user/Documents".
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