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

Seems like you could also do this:

__dirname=fs.realpathSync('.');

of course, dont forget fs=require('fs')

(it's not really global in node scripts exactly, its just defined on the module level)