Comment by watusername

> How would that be hard? Getting the absolute path of a string is in almost all languages stdlibs[1]. You can just grep for any string containing slashes and try resolve them and voilá

Be very, very careful about this, because if you aren't, this can actually result in platform-dependent behavior or actual filesystem access. They are bytes containing funny slashes and dots, so process them as such.

Edit: s/text/bytes/