Advanced · Understand the workspace

realpath: Parse absolute paths

Syntax

realpath path…

Examples

realpath projects/../README.txt

Usage and sandbox support

The sandbox requires the path to exist and supports end symbolic link chains; directory links in the middle of the path are not supported yet.

Hands-on exercises

• Convert relative path to absolute pathAdvanced
• Resolve link chain from subdirectoryMaster

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