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

sometimes we make a file with .js extension and add consol.log(_dirname); but we face errors, we are in a hurry, so we forget to add one more underscore before the "dirname" so we face reference error.correct syntax is consol.log(__dirname);