Convert a Windows file path to a Unix path

Use forward slashes and drop a drive letter or leading ./.

JavaScript Version 1.0.0 · MIT · .md

function toUnixPath(path) { return path.replace(/[\\/]+/g, '/').replace(/^([a-zA-Z]+:|\.\/)/, ''); }

Input & expected output

"C:\\Users\\ana\\report.pdf"

"/Users/ana/report.pdf"

The edge case

".\\docs\\readme.md"

"docs/readme.md"

Know the limits

• The drive letter is discarded, not mapped to a mount point.

The function above is the implementation used by the lab. The lab validates JSON types and caps size before execution; include equivalent validation when accepting untrusted input in your application.

Keep exploring

• Capitalize a string — Uppercase the first Unicode code point and preserve the remaining text.
• Reverse a string — Reverse Unicode code points without splitting surrogate pairs.
• Check a palindrome — Compare a string with its code-point reversal.