The interpreter must usually be an absolute path to a program that is not itself a script.

These templates may contain any pan statement, but statements must operate only on absolute paths.

A related problem is the use of absolute paths or parent directory references when creating tar files.

It is used when specifying absolute paths:

The folder names are always taken as absolute paths (a path from the root directory of the media) whether or not a leading slash is used.

Absolute paths are usually system header files and coverage of any inline functions therein is normally uninteresting.

GNU tar by default refuses to create or extract absolute paths, but is still vulnerable to parent-directory references.

In the case that there is no absolute path present, it must be given as "/" when used as a request URI for a resource.

If you only specify a relative selector and not an absolute path, Bucktooth sticks on the path they're browsing.

Shebangs must specify absolute paths to system executables; this can cause problems on systems that have a non-standard file system layout.

Org files as interconnected pages of a personal wiki, with file links like or, using link abbreviations for absolute paths, .

"The path of the imam is the absolute path of the Islamic republic," Mr. Ahmadinejad said then.

A relative path is a path relative to the working directory of the user or application, so the full absolute path will not have to be given.

A full path or absolute path is a path that points to the same location on one file system regardless of the working directory or combined paths.

As such, "My Documents" in file load/save dialogs (and in Windows Explorer) doesn't appear as an absolute path.

However, junction points could be created only for directories and stored absolute paths, whereas hardlinks could be created for files but were not cross-volume.

Here is in essence the part of the original URI, and is the following absolute path introduced by a slash ""; it can be empty or absent.

While NTFS junction points support only absolute paths on local drives, the NTFS symbolic links allow linking using relative paths.

Absolute paths begin from the very top of the directory tree and therefore always correspond to the same file or directory no matter where the symlink file containing that path is moved.

Linked tables in Access use absolute paths rather than relative paths, so the development environment either has to have the same path as the production environment or a "dynamic-linker" routine can be written in VBA.

For example, the HTTP scheme-specific syntax and semantics for HTTP URLs requires a "host" (web server address) and "absolute path", with optional components of "port" and "query".

Microsoft Windows shortcuts normally refer to a destination by an absolute path (starting from the root directory), whereas POSIX symbolic links can refer to destinations via either an absolute or a relative path.