ALL meanings of pathname
path·name
P p - noun Technical meaning of pathname (file system) (Or "path") The specification of a node (file or directory) in a hierarchical file system. The path is usually specified by listing the nodes top-down, separating the directories by the pathname separator ("/" in Unix, "\" in MS-DOS). A pathname may be an absolute pathname (starting from the root directory, "/") or a relative pathname (starting from the current working directory). The part of the pathname of a file after the last separator is called the basename. 1
- noun pathname the sequence of symbols and names indicating the location of a particular file in a hierarchical file system. 1
- noun pathname the name of a file or directory together with its position in relation to other directories traced back in a line to the root; the names of the file and each of the parent directories are separated from one another by slashes 0