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- directory - What are . and . . directories? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
Every directory on a Unix system (and probably every other system too) contains at least two directory entries These are (current directory) and (parent directory) In the case of the root directory, these point to the same place, but with any other directory, they are different You can see this for yourself using the stat, pwd and cd commands (on Linux): $ cd $ stat bin sbin
- What is the difference between a directory and a folder?
Check "The folder metaphor" section at Wikipedia It states: There is a difference between a directory, which is a file system concept, and the graphical user interface metaphor that is used to represent it (a folder) For example, Microsoft Windows uses the concept of special folders to help present the contents of the computer to the user in a fairly consistent way that frees the user from
- windows - What are . and . . in a directory? - Super User
The is the current directory, while signifies the parent directory It makes things quicker at the command line as well so you don't need to type out full paths example: go up 2 directories: cd \ \ or on a UNIX based system, to run executable binaries in the current directory: program A lot of UNIX scripts will also utilize to represent the current directory, in order to scan for
- mkdir: cannot create directory ‘LINUX_COMMANDS’: Permission denied
The fact that home is an absolute, literal path that has no user-specific component provides a clue While home happens to be the parent directory of all user-specific home directories on Linux-based systems, you shouldn't even rely on that, given that this differs across platforms: for instance, the equivalent directory on macOS is Users
- I cannot add the parent directory to *safe. directory* in Git
│ │ ├─ anthony In this case, the user tommy owns his own directory under home, but (for some reason) rents out space to other users, in this case mary and anthony If mary, by mistake, where to execute git in her directory, but outside of her phone_app project, then old git would go up the directory tree to search a git repository
- How do I remove a directory and all its contents?
In bash all I know is that rmdir directoryname will remove the directory but only if it's empty Is there a way to force remove subdirectories?
- git - Whats the difference between working directory and local . . .
Working directory is the directory with your source files under git control (in the root of all dirs under control git file is present) Git is tracking the difference between your working directory and local repository, and between your local repository and (one of) remote repositories To see what was changed, use $ git status To commit your changes (edits and or new files) to the local
- rsync exclude directory not working - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
I am running Fedora 17 64-bit and the rsync --exclude= home ben <dir> is not working as expected I am trying to rsync my home directory to a thumb drive, but I want to exclude certainly
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