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I"EConverts a pathname to an absolute pathname. Relative paths are ;TI"Ireferenced from the current working directory of the process unless ;TI"A+dir_string+ is given, in which case it will be used as the ;TI"9starting point. The given pathname may start with a ;TI"C``~'', which expands to the process owner's home ;TI"~user'' expands to the named ;TI"user's home directory.;To: RDoc::Markup::BlankLine o:RDoc::Markup::Verbatim; [I"FFile.expand_path("~oracle/bin") #=> "/home/oracle/bin"
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