Relative path

In computing, relative path refers to your path relative to your current working directory.

Example

Here is an example using a Unix / Linux file system:

Your current working directory is:
/users/mark/

You want to change your current working directory to:
/users/mark/bobapples

At that moment, the relative path for the directory you want is:
bobapples

and the absolute path for the directory you want is
/users/mark/bobapples

Because bobapples is the relative path for the directory you want, you may type the following at the CLI to change your current working directory to bobapples:
cd bobapples