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How to resolve a path that includes an environment variable, in nodejs?

rated 0 times [ 88] [ 6] / answers: 1 / hits: 6557 / 11 Years ago, sun, january 26, 2014, 12:00:00

I would like to run an executable and its path contains an enviroment variable, for example if I would like to run chrome.exe I would like to write something like this

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

spawn('chrome',[], {cwd: '%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\Application', env: process.env})

instead of

var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;

spawn('chrome',[], {cwd: 'C:\Usersmyuser\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application', env: process.env}).

Is there a package I can use in order to achieve this?

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answered 11 Years ago dequant · Accepted Answer

These answers are crazy. Just can use path:

const folder = require('path').join(

    process.env.LOCALAPPDATA,

    'Google/Chrome/Application',

);



console.log(folder); // C:UsersMyNameAppDataLocalGoogleChromeApplication