Why is __dirname not defined in node REPL?

Question

From the node manual I see that I can get the directory of a file with __dirname, but from the REPL this seems to be undefined. Is this a misunderstanding on my

Answer 1

As @qiao said, you can't use __dirname in the node repl. However, if you need need this value in the console, you can use path.resolve() or path.dirname(). Although, path.dirname() will just give you a "." so, probably not that helpful. Be sure to require('path').