path-variables.mdx

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Path Variables - HCL Configuration Language	Special variables provide directory information. This page covers all path variables.

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Path variables

• path.cwd: the directory from where Packer was started.

• path.root: the directory of the input HCL file or the input folder.

Examples

locals {
  settings_file  = "${path.cwd}/settings.txt"
  scripts_folder = "${path.root}/scripts"
  root           = path.root
}

Related Functions

• abspath takes a string containing a filesystem path and converts it to an absolute path.

• basename returns only the last portion of a filesystem path, discarding the portion that would be returned by dirname.

• fileset enumerates a set of regular file names given a path and pattern.

• dirname returns all of the segments of a filesystem path except the last, discarding the portion that would be returned by basename.