how to get the current working directory s absolute path from irb

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I m running Ruby on Windows though I don t know if that should make a difference   All I want to do is get the current working directory s absolute path   Is this possible from irb   Apparently from a script it s possible using File expand path   FILE     But from irb I tried the following and got a  Permission denied  error   File new Dir new      path  expand

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File expand path File dirname   FILE    will return the directory relative to the file this command is called from   But Dir pwd returns the working directory  results identical to executing pwd in your terminal

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Through this you can get absolute path of any file located in any directory   File join Dir pwd  some-dir   some-file-name     This will return    gt    User abc xyz some-dir some-file-name

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This will give you the working directory of the current file    File dirname   FILE      Example   current file    Users nemrow SITM folder1 folder2 amazon rb   result    Users nemrow SITM folder1 folder2

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If you want to get the full path of the directory of the current rb file   File expand path          FILE

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Dir pwd seems to do the trick   http   ruby-doc org core Dir html method-c-pwd

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As for the path relative to the current executing script  since Ruby 2 0 you can also use    dir     So this is basically the same as  File dirname   FILE

[ruby] how to get the current working directory's absolute path from irb

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