find the path of a directory in go

To find the absolute path of a directory in Go, you can use the filepath.Abs() function from the path/filepath package. Here's an example code snippet to find the path of a directory:


main.go
package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
    "path/filepath"
)

func main() {
    // get the current working directory
    wd, err := os.Getwd()
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    // create a relative path to the directory you want to find the path for
    dirPath := "./path/to/directory"

    // get the absolute path of the directory
    absPath, err := filepath.Abs(filepath.Join(wd, dirPath))
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    fmt.Println(absPath) // print the absolute path of the directory
}
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In this example, the os.Getwd() function is used to get the current working directory. The desired directory is specified using a relative path, and the filepath.Abs() function is used to get the absolute path of this directory by joining the working directory with the desired directory path using filepath.Join(). Finally, the absolute path is printed to the console.

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