Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fully specified name of a computer file, including the position of the file in the file system's directory structure.
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- noun computing The full
name of acomputer file , including the names of anydirectories orsubdirectories in thepath needed to access it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wildcards in bash are referred to as pathname expansion.
LXer Linux News Mitch Frazier 2008
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OK, abbrev pathname where 'pathname' is the full pathname of the ABBREV file you wish to activate.
Introduction to the Primos Operating System by Violence of The VOID Hackers 1989
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However I am trying to pass the variable "pathname" to the wd_frm2_r API for file output path.
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However I am trying to pass the variable "pathname" to the wd_frm2_r API for file output path.
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This is a drop-in replacement for the current Ruby-native 'pathname' class
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Lastly, the shared folder is so slow and has a number of incompatibilities such that installing software from it frequently fails with some kind of pathname issue.
MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2008
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I might tell my knowledge base that (exists X) if X is a pathname that refers to a file or directory that exists, that (is-part-of X Y) if X and Y are pathnames that refer to files or directory that exist, X is a directory, and Y is directly within that directory, that (title X Y) holds if X is a pathname and Y is the last part of it (the filename), etc.
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This can also be done programmatically by an extension, which is done by setting the value of the browser.feeds.handlers.application option to the pathname of the application to use for reading feeds.
davidrothman.net » How to: Set up one-click feed subscription in Firefox 2.0 2006
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This can also be done programmatically by an extension, which is done by setting the value of the browser.feeds.handlers.application option to the pathname of the application to use for reading feeds.
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You also cannot request the file by its full pathname.
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