---
title: path.Clean
description: Replaces path separators with slashes (`/`) and removes extraneous separators.
categories: [functions]
keywords: []
menu:
  docs:
    parent: functions
function:
  aliases: []
  returnType: string
  signatures: [path.Clean PATH]
relatedFunctions:
  - path.Base
  - path.BaseName
  - path.Clean
  - path.Dir
  - path.Ext
  - path.Join
  - path.Split
aliases: [/functions/path.clean]
---

`path.Clean` replaces path separators with slashes (`/`) and removes extraneous separators, including trailing separators.

```go-html-template
{{ path.Clean "foo//bar" }} → "foo/bar"
{{ path.Clean "/foo/bar/" }} → "/foo/bar"
```

On a Windows system, if `.File.Path` is `foo\bar.md`, then:

```go-html-template
{{ path.Clean .File.Path }} → "foo/bar.md"
```