Note: If possible, try to always use a forward slash / as the path separator, especially when dealing with relative paths. A backward slash \ will work on Windows and is the official Windows path separator, but when building from any system that is not Windows, Packer will only treat slashes / as path separators, and treat backslashes as plain text. Which could lead to pathing errors.

»Path variables

path.cwd: the directory from where Packer was started.
path.root: the directory of the input HCL file or the input folder.

Examples

locals {
  settings_file  = "${path.cwd}/settings.txt"
  scripts_folder = "${path.root}/scripts"
  root           = path.root
}

abspath takes a string containing a filesystem path and converts it to an absolute path.
basename returns only the last portion of a filesystem path, discarding the portion that would be returned by dirname.
fileset enumerates a set of regular file names given a path and pattern.
dirname returns all of the segments of a filesystem path except the last, discarding the portion that would be returned by basename.

»Path variables

Examples

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