Pass in the gulp dest path from the root of the system

Question

I use gulp and I need to somehow transfer to gulp.dest path from the root folder of the system, not the project.

I know that you can use a construction like ../../ , but this is not suitable because if you move the folder with the project to another place, everything will break.

Qwertiy ♦ Qwertiy 76k 17 73 199 · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-30T10:50:14

The root (in the case of Windows, the root of the current disk) is indicated by the slash: /smth/abc .

In the case of Windows, the path with the drive letter should be considered absolute, but if not, you can try to put a slash or three slashes in front of it too.

I now thought that I was not sure that gulp.dest could handle this path.
Probably you need to take the absolute path in the system and turn it into a relative from the project.

dmitryshishkin dmitryshishkin 1,162 3 25 · Answer 2 · 2018-03-30T11:03:03

You can use path.relative

 var relativePath = path.relative(process.cwd(), someFilePath);

dmitryshishkin

1,162 3 25

I found the answer in English Stack Overflow, but I can’t close the question by referring there, so I duplicated the answer here. Original: stackoverflow.com/questions/34696334/… - dmitryshishkin

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