Table of Contents

• Path
  • path.basename(p[, ext])
  • path.delimiter
  • path.dirname(p)
  • path.extname(p)
  • path.format(pathObject)
  • path.isAbsolute(path)
  • path.join([path1][, path2][, ...])
  • path.normalize(p)
  • path.parse(pathString)
  • path.posix
  • path.relative(from, to)
  • path.resolve([from ...], to)
  • path.sep
  • path.win32

Path#

Stability: 2 - Stable

This module contains utilities for handling and transforming file paths. Almost all these methods perform only string transformations. The file system is not consulted to check whether paths are valid.

Use require('path') to use this module. The following methods are provided:

path.basename(p[, ext])#

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

Example:

path.basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html')
// returns 'quux.html'

path.basename('/foo/bar/baz/asdf/quux.html', '.html')
// returns 'quux'

path.delimiter#

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

An example on *nix:

console.log(process.env.PATH)
// '/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin'

process.env.PATH.split(path.delimiter)
// returns ['/usr/bin', '/bin', '/usr/sbin', '/sbin', '/usr/local/bin']

An example on Windows:

console.log(process.env.PATH)
// 'C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Program Files\node\'

process.env.PATH.split(path.delimiter)
// returns ['C:\\Windows\\system32', 'C:\\Windows', 'C:\\Program Files\\node\\']

path.dirname(p)#

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