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path expand for path

Try to expand a path to its absolute form.

Signature

> path expand {flags}

Flags

  • --strict, -s: Throw an error if the path could not be expanded
  • --no-symlink, -n: Do not resolve symbolic links

Input/output types:

input output
list<string> list<string>
string string

Examples

Expand an absolute path

>'/home/joe/foo/../bar'|path expand
/home/joe/bar

Expand a relative path

>'foo/../bar'|path expand

Expand a list of paths

> [ /foo/../bar, /foo/../baz ] |path expand
╭───┬──────╮
0/bar
1/baz
╰───┴──────╯

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