Access file system path of content directory when module.mounts is used

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Ordinarily, as in this shortcode, the below works fine for computing a certain path:

{{- $rootDir := $.Get "rootDir" | default (print "/content/" .Page.File.Dir) }}

However, on a windows machine (Hugo Static Site Generator v0.72.0/extended windows/amd64 BuildDate: unknown), we have the following config for which the above fails on use with readDir (error calling readDir: failed to read directory "/content/sAma\\meta\\paravastu-sampradAyaH\\images\\."):

  [[module.mounts]]
    source = "../vedAH-content"
    target = "content"

How would I avoid hardcoding /content/? I tried looking at Site Variables | Hugo and did not notice any variable which will give me the path to the content directory. I want to avoid doing something ugly like passing it in .Site.Params. Any ideas?

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Yes.

Change your shortcode to access images as page or global resources.

https://gohugo.io/content-management/page-resources
https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing

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Page resources wouldn’t work if I want the shortcode to list contents of an arbitrary content directory (passed as argument to the shortcode). What are global resources (googling did not help)? Would it overcome this problem?

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Yes, it would. See:
https://gohugo.io/functions/getpage

Anything in the assets directory. See:
https://gohugo.io/content-management/image-processing/#the-image-resource

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