Here's the problem. After some concatenations I may happen to have a string like this

```
"C:/shared_resources/samples\\import_packages\\catalog.zip"

```

or even this

```
"C:/shared_resources/samples/subfolder/..\\import_packages\\catalog.zip"

```

I want to have some code that will convert such string into a path with uniform separators.

The first solution that comes to mind is using `new File(srcPath).getCanonicalPath()`, however here's the tricky part. This method relies on the system where the tests are invoked. However I need to pass the string to a remote machine (Selenium Grid node with a browser there), and the systems here and there are Linux and Windows respectively. Therefore trying to do `new File("C:/shared_resources/samples\\import_packages\\catalog.zip").getCanonicalPath()` results in something like `"/home/username/ourproject/C:/shared_resources/samples/import_packages/catalog.zip"`. And using blunt regex replacement doesn't seem a very good solution too.

Is there a way just to prune the path and make delimiters uniform (and possibly resolving `..`'s) without trying to implicitly absolutize it?