What's a “canonical path”?

Question

So, an absolute path it\'s a way to get to a certain file or location describing the full route to it, the full path, and it\'s OS dependent (the absolute paths for Windows

Answer 1

A good way to define a canonical path will be: the shortest absolute path (short, in the meaning of string-length).

This is an example of the difference between an absolute path and a canonical path:

absolute path: C:\abc\..\abc\file.txt
canonical path: C:\abc\file.txt