pathname

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pathname - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  pathname
  pathspec
  
     <file system> (Or "path") The specification of a node (file or
     directory) in a hierarchical file system.  The path is
     usually specified by listing the nodes top-down, separating
     the directories by the pathname separator ("/" in Unix,
     "\" in MS-DOS).
  
     A pathname may be an absolute pathname or a relative pathname
     .  The part of the pathname of a file after the last
     separator is called the basename.
  
     (1997-03-10)