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I want to know the difference between the relative path and the absolute path.Thanks for the replies.

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An absolute path starts at the root of the directory hierarchy, and names directories under it
In the root directory is a directory called bin, which contains a file called ls:

/bin/ls

Paths don’t have to start from the root directory

* A path which doesn’t start with / is a relative path
* It is relative to some other directory, usually the current directory

P.S the above two are sort of definition. for example if ur right now in the directory /home/gorky/Desktop/resume then u can go access a file in ur /home/gorky directory (say gorky.c) in the following tow ways:
1) vi /home/gorky/gorky.c - that would be an absolute path
2) vi ../../gorky.c - relative path
the first ../ takes to the base directory of the current directory u r in ( u r in /home/gorky/desktop/resume/ directory currently and the base of it is desktop). the second ../ takes u to the gorky directory where u have gorky.c. vi is the test editor

b) another example is if u want to see the access properties of gorky.c from ur present directory then (ls -l ../../gorky.c) which is an example of relative path ( path relative to u r present directory.

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Wow kavi very nice Clarification!

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