In my previous blog, I have shared the insights about the step-by-step guide to open Node.js command prompt in Ubuntu. Later that evening, I received a query regarding ‘ways to get the current directory in the Node.js’.

I thought of formulating another blog post for the same.

Well let’s begin,

We can get current directory name by using the following node global variable.

_ _dirname

It offers directory’s full path containing the present running scripts and returns the string value. It returns the entire resolved directory path that the presently executing script resides. If we type _dirname into path /d1/d2/myscript.js, it will return /d1/d2.

It is the directory in which the currently executing script resides . If we type _dirname into path /d1/d2/myscript.js it will return /d1/d2.

The below function will return current directory name:

function getCurrentDirectory () {

      
    var path = __dirname.split('/');  // replace the "/" into "," in _dirname and convert into array


   var currentDIR = path[path.length-1]; // access into last element in array and paste into currentDIR


   return currentDIR;


 }

That was easy, isn’t it?

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