| # is-relative [](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-relative) [](https://npmjs.org/package/is-relative) [](https://npmjs.org/package/is-relative) [](https://travis-ci.org/jonschlinkert/is-relative) |
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| > Returns `true` if the path appears to be relative. |
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| ## Install |
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| Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/): |
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| ```sh |
| $ npm install --save is-relative |
| ``` |
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| ## Usage |
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| ```js |
| var isRelative = require('is-relative'); |
| console.log(isRelative('README.md')); |
| //=> true |
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| console.log(isRelative('/User/dev/foo/README.md')); |
| //=> false |
| ``` |
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| ## About |
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| ### Related projects |
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| * [is-absolute](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-absolute): Polyfill for node.js `path.isAbolute`. Returns true if a file path is absolute. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-absolute "Polyfill for node.js `path.isAbolute`. Returns true if a file path is absolute.") |
| * [is-dotfile](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-dotfile): Return true if a file path is (or has) a dotfile. Returns false if the… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotfile) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-dotfile "Return true if a file path is (or has) a dotfile. Returns false if the path is a dot directory.") |
| * [is-glob](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-glob): Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern… [more](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob) | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-glob "Returns `true` if the given string looks like a glob pattern or an extglob pattern. This makes it easy to create code that only uses external modules like node-glob when necessary, resulting in much faster code execution and initialization time, and a bet") |
| * [is-relative](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-relative): Returns `true` if the path appears to be relative. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-relative "Returns `true` if the path appears to be relative.") |
| * [is-unc-path](https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-unc-path): Returns true if a filepath is a windows UNC file path. | [homepage](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/is-unc-path "Returns true if a filepath is a windows UNC file path.") |
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| ### Contributing |
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| Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, [please create an issue](../../issues/new). |
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| ### Contributors |
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| | **Commits** | **Contributor** | |
| | --- | --- | |
| | 13 | [jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) | |
| | 3 | [shinnn](https://github.com/shinnn) | |
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| ### Building docs |
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| _(This project's readme.md is generated by [verb](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the [.verb.md](.verb.md) readme template.)_ |
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| To generate the readme, run the following command: |
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| ```sh |
| $ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb |
| ``` |
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| ### Running tests |
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| Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command: |
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| ```sh |
| $ npm install && npm test |
| ``` |
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| ### Author |
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| **Jon Schlinkert** |
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| * [github/jonschlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert) |
| * [twitter/jonschlinkert](https://twitter.com/jonschlinkert) |
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| ### License |
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| Copyright © 2017, [Jon Schlinkert](https://github.com/jonschlinkert). |
| Released under the [MIT License](LICENSE). |
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| *** |
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| _This file was generated by [verb-generate-readme](https://github.com/verbose/verb-generate-readme), v0.6.0, on July 13, 2017._ |