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How can I obtain the case-sensitive path on Windows?

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You can use this function: [DllImport(“kernel32.dll”, SetLastError=true, CharSet=CharSet.Auto)] static extern uint GetLongPathName(string ShortPath, StringBuilder sb, int buffer); [DllImport(“kernel32.dll”)] static extern uint GetShortPathName(string longpath, StringBuilder sb, int buffer); protected static string GetWindowsPhysicalPath(string path) { StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(255); // names with long extension can cause the short name to be actually larger than // the … Read more

What’s the difference between path & path.filepath packages in Go

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What is the difference? While functionally similar, path and path/filepath offer differing implementations. Filepath depends on the os package to choose the target runtime’s file separators and other differing components when dealing with path strings. You can look as the os source to see that there are differing implementations for various utility functions. This allows … Read more

How to get Desktop location?

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On Unix or Linux: import os desktop = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.path.expanduser(‘~’)), ‘Desktop’) on Windows: import os desktop = os.path.join(os.path.join(os.environ[‘USERPROFILE’]), ‘Desktop’) and to add in your command: shutil.copy(txtName, desktop)

How can one get an absolute or normalized file path in .NET?

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I would write it like this: public static string NormalizePath(string path) { return Path.GetFullPath(new Uri(path).LocalPath) .TrimEnd(Path.DirectorySeparatorChar, Path.AltDirectorySeparatorChar) .ToUpperInvariant(); } This should handle few scenarios like uri and potential escaped characters in it, like file:///C:/Test%20Project.exe -> C:\TEST PROJECT.EXE path segments specified by dots to denote current or parent directory c:\aaa\bbb\..\ccc -> C:\AAA\CCC tilde shortened (long) paths … Read more

Convert content:// URI to actual path in Android 4.4

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This will get the file path from the MediaProvider, DownloadsProvider, and ExternalStorageProvider, while falling back to the unofficial ContentProvider method you mention. /** * Get a file path from a Uri. This will get the the path for Storage Access * Framework Documents, as well as the _data field for the MediaStore and * other … Read more