带有 windows 路径的 path.dirname() 只返回一个点

Question

I am building a Vue JS application inside electron JS. On Unix operating systems, it works perfectly fine, but on Windows, I facing the problem that path.dirname() always returns just a dot . .

so:

path.dirname("C:\Users\zourn\Dropbox\Lindwurm\modsort\TCGA-DU-7294\la_t1c.nii.gz")

returns: .

to make it weirder:

      var os = require("os");

      console.log(os.type()); // clearly shows a windows operating system

however:

console.log(path.sep)

outputs: / and not the expected \ . Therefore, the returned . should be kind of expected.

What is going on there? I am using node v14 LTS.

My very ugly solution for the moment is:

var definitelyPosix = srcFile.split("\\").join("/");
path.dirname(definitelyPosix)

but there must be a better way?

Answer 1

It does sound like path is misidentifying the platform for some reason, but if that's the only problem you can force it by using path.win32.dirname() .

(assuming your lack of escaped slashes in your first example was just an accident or for illustration purposes)