A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved; route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a course of life or action.

The specification of a file in terms of the where it is in the hierarchy of directories in the filesystem. This specification is relative to the root directory if it begins with a slash(/) or relative to your current working directory if the beginning slash is omitted. A full path is generally one specified relative to the root directory and so always begins with a slash (/). Example paths: / the root directory . your current working directory .. the directory above your current working directory (the parent directory) /u/s/smith user smith's home directory /u/s/smith/.bash_profile the full path of the .bashr_profile file in user smith's home directory bin a directory named bin which is a subdirectory of the directory you are currently in /bin a directory named bin which is a subdirectory of the root directory ../bin a directory named bin which is a subdirectory of the directory above you (the parent directory of your current working directory) root directory The top (or bottom depending upon how you look at it) of the directory hierarchy in the filesystem. All directories and files branch off of the root directory. The root directory is specified with a path of just the slash

a set of directories for pipeline input and output data or, in the sense of path file, a specific set of parameters for an OPUS pipeline

A list of directories in which the operating system looks for files. To put a directory in one's path is to add the directory's name to this list; to put a file in one's path is to store the file in a directory that is on the list. Used also of the full path or pathname of a file, the sequential list of directories which locates the file on the disk; the reference is parsed recursively, like a linguistic tree, e.g, in Unix, the string /usr/jlawler/bin/aliases specifies a file named aliases, which is further specified as being located in the subdirectory named bin, which is located in the subdirectory named jlawler, which is located in the subdirectory named usr, which is located under the top ( root) directory (always called simply " / ")

The location of a file on your computer. This information is useful because it allows you to easily organize and locate the files on your computer.

(n.) Usually, a way to travel from directories to the files contained therein.

Displays or sets a search path for executable files.

The route to a folder or a file. It consists of the disk drive name, a folder and/or subfolder (if any) and the filename. For example: c:/window/programs/fallderah.exe.

Path has two meanings: 1) a full specification of directories to locate a file, and 2) a series of directories which DOS will search to launch an executable file (also known as a " search path"). Netware adds two additional levels of information to meaning #1: the file server and volume. For example, for a file in the directory "\DATA" which is a subdirectory of the directory "\SAS" the full DOS path specification for the file "STUFF.DAT" would be "\SAS\DATA\STUFF.DAT". The complete Netware path might be TSUGA/SYS:SAS\DATA\STUFF.DAT where TSUGA is a server and /SYS is the name of the volume, or disk partition, attached to that server (see Map).

A list of directories which the system searches in turn to resolve command requests.

The route a signal follows.

On the World Wide Web, the sequence of directories leading to an Internet document. When dissecting a URL, the path is the part of the address following the protocol and domain name. It may consist of any number of directories and a file name. An explanation of relative addressing is available at http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/navigate/path.html.

The list from drive to file of the nested levels to a file, like C:\Program Files\Office\winword.exe

Specifies the location of a file within the directory tree. For example, a file you create in WordPerfect and store in your personal (Files) directory would have the path: C:\FILES\FILENAME.WPD.

A path describes the location of a file. The path usually starts with a hard drive or peripheral storage device followed by a directory pathway, followed by the file name. For example, c://documents/personal/familyphone.doc. (See also absolute path name, directory path name, and relative path name.)

The route through a directory structure to a particular file or directory. Different operating systems have different conventions for describing paths. For example, the path to a picture of your dog may be "C:\windows\desktop\pics\pooch.gif" in Windows 95, but if the same file existed on a Unix (another operating system) computer, the path might be "/home/luvmuffin/pics/pooch.gif"

a specification for the location of a file. Paths are used for locating library modules and include files.

The location of a file or subdirectory in the file system. A file's directory path is a list of all the parent directories above that file, to the root of the disk or volume.

Pointers that tell DOS which directories to search through when looking for executable files that are not found in the current directory. (You can display a workstation's current paths by typing the DOS command PATH.) NetWare search drives are added to the workstation's path environment variables.

A path is the route through your computer, network, or Internet file system to a particular file. On a PC with a Windows operating system, the format is: Drive Letter: Directory Name (also called Folder) File Name and Extension. A path example to a photo on my computers main hard drive in my "photo" subfolder which is under my "graphics" folder would look like this ("photo" folder being a sub-directory or sub-folder of my "graphics" folder): C:\graphics\photo\vacation.jpg The same image on my website might have a path such as this: http://www.mysite.com/graphics/photo/vacation.jpg[ Back

a route for walking only

A path is a sequence of adjacent vertices. In other words, a path is a route through a graph which travels along the edges from vertex to vertex. If a path starts and ends at the same vertex, then it is a circuit.

The route that tells DOS or UNIX where to search for a program or batch file if it is not found in the current directory. The PATH statement is usually found in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file for DOS; in UNIX, it is an environment variable that can be set by each user in his or her login shell.

The directory-like third component of a standard Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

The portion of a URL that identifies the folders containing a file. For example, in the URL http://example.microsoft.com/hello/world/top.htm, the path is /hello/world/.

Any program which a user tries to execute in DOS without supplying a directory causes DOS to have to find the Directory in which the Program resides. First it tries the Current Directory, If unsuccessful it then goes through in order all the Directories specified in the PATH. The PATH is defined in AUTOEXEC.BAT

a slot which represents the route along which an entity (i.e., a theme) travels.

A set of directory names and filenames that defines the location of a directory or file. A backslash (\) precedes each directory name and filename except the top-level one. (For example, the path REPORTS\ACCT\NORTH.DAT indicates that the NORTH.DAT file is in the ACCT subdirectory of the REPORTS directory.) An initial backslash indicates that the path begins at the drive's root directory. See also network path, search path.

Specifies the location of a file within the directory tree. For example, to specify the path of a file named README.WRI located in the WINDOWS directory on drive C, you would type c:\windows\readme.wri.

See "file path."

a line or route along which something travels or moves; "the hurricane demolished houses in its path"; "the track of an animal"; "the course of the river"

a combination of slashes and directory names that can be used to identify the specific location of a file

a directory location (sometimes called a folder) on a host

a file that allows you to access a file by alternate index - it provides the association between the AIX and the base cluster

a kind of walk

a linear flow of data that starts at a source device and ends at a destination device

a line of text that shows the exact location of a file, including any folders and subfolders

a list of directories where Windows can look for needed files

a list of router hops that specifies a route across an MPLS domain

a map to the desired drive and folder

a mathematically-defined (usually drawn by the user) route through two or three-dimensional space that the computer will use for some purpose

a more direct way to describe where a file is located on your computer or network

a particular route for traveling along the edges of a graph

a physical connection to that same file as seen from the inside (i

a pointer to where something is stored, say for instance you have a file on your computer called "My Black Book

a route between two points

a route from one node to another across a specific series of links

a route to a given destination

a route to or between address points or nodes within the organized network structure

a sequence of directories or files in which each is the parent or child of the one that follows it

a sequence of intermediate autonomous systems between source and destination routers that form a directed route for packets to travel

a specially formatted list of the directories one must traverse to get from one directory to another

a special place , a route created by feet going somewhere specific

a string describing the location of a file

a string of directories possibly ending with a file name

a string of text that describes where a file is stored

a string that denotes a file, for example "src/readme

a string that provides the location of a file or directory

A bang path or explicitly routed Internet address; a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines. UNIX: A filename, fully specified relative to the root directory (as opposed to relative to the current directory; the latter is sometimes called a `relative path'). This is also called a `pathname'.

A directory location, generally used to show the location of a file. For example, C:\ and C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM are both paths.

An environment variable that is a list (with entries separated by semicolons) of directories that are searched when a program is invoked. It should include the path where the driver programs are installed.

the route you take down directories and sub-directories to get to the files you want (e.g. /pub/mac/utilities/compression/).

The named location of a file on a disk. Path specifications include all nested folder names that house the file. On DOS machines, a path may take the form C:\\data\myfile.txt where "C" is the hard drive, "data" is the name of the folder holding the file called "myfile.txt".

Unique description of a file's position in a file system.

A list of the names of the subdirectories between the root and the file in question. Any similar list of subdirectories.

The series of folders and subfolders (directories and subdirectories) that define where a file is located on a server or storage device (hard drive).