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page_title: Path Variables - HCL Configuration Language
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description: |-
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Special variables provide directory information. This page covers all path
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variables.
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---
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# Path variables
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- `path.cwd`: the directory from where Packer was started.
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- `path.root`: the directory of the input HCL file or the input folder.
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## Examples
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```HCL
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locals {
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settings_file = "${path.cwd}/settings.txt"
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scripts_folder = "${path.root}/scripts"
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root = path.root
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}
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```
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## Related Functions
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- [`abspath`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/file/abspath) takes a string containing
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a filesystem path and converts it to an absolute path.
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- [`basename`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/file/basename) returns _only_ the last
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portion of a filesystem path, discarding the portion that would be returned
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by `dirname`.
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- [`fileset`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/file/fileset) enumerates a set of
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regular file names given a path and pattern.
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- [`dirname`](/docs/templates/hcl_templates/functions/file/dirname) returns all of the
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segments of a filesystem path _except_ the last, discarding the portion that
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would be returned by `basename`.
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