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Fix a typo in docs on data fetching #33004

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/basic-features/data-fetching.md
Expand Up @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ Files can be read directly from the filesystem in `getStaticProps`.

In order to do so you have to get the full path to a file.

Since Next.js compiles your code into a separate directory you can't use `__dirname` as the path it will return will be different from the pages directory.
Since Next.js compiles your code into a separate directory you can't use `__dirname` as the path. It will be different from the pages directory.

Instead you can use `process.cwd()` which gives you the directory where Next.js is being executed.

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