Hi, I wish to construct platform independent file paths within a template for a theme used by users across multiple operating systems. For example, a path would need to be constructed as /x/y/z on *nix or \x\y\z on Windows. I don’t believe that Hugo’s Path template functionality currently supports…

What you want is probably .File.ContentBaseName That said, you can do path manipulation with https://gohugo.io/functions/path.split/ and friends. A general tip when asking for help on this forum: Tell us what you try to solve, not how you try to solve it.

Generally, having access to a template variable containing the OS string and/or directory separator (/ or \) would be helpful to enable a number of applications. Specifically, I am attempting to solve https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic/issues/800#issuecomment-441312830 . The Academic theme us…

@bep to further clarify, the code linked above is attempting to determine if a page is a page bundle, and if so, get the directory name of the page bundle. Currently, I believe Hugo can only directly provide the full dir path (.File.Dir). It would be nice to have something like .File.PageBundleName …

[image] neutreno: get the directory name of the page bundle. What do you need the directory name for?

@neutreno – what if you did something like this, and if it contains / then Unix-like, else Windows. {{ getenv "PATH" }} You could play around with other env vars, I just used PATH here since all OSs have it.

I solved it with the following: {{ $dir_sep := substr .Dir -1 1 }} {{ $bundle := delimit (last 1 (split (substr .Dir 0 -1) $dir_sep)) "" }} This work around is based on certain assumptions and is not that elegant, so it would still be nice to have one or more of the 3 above suggestions built into …

Thanks @bep ! I wasn’t aware of .File.ContentBaseName as it’s not in the docs - I assume it was added fairly recently. It looks like .File.ContentBaseName performs exactly what I was after by obtaining the content name irrespective of whether the page is a bundle or not :smile: Path.dir and associa…

Constructing file paths that are platform independent

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zwbetz November 29, 2018, 9:15pm 10

Wrote a short post on File Variables. It basically mirrors what’s in the docs, but the included shortcode may be useful to you.

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Constructing file paths that are platform independent

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