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- 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
- 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
- windows - What are . and . . in a directory? - Super User
Based on the question: How to make using command prompt less painful, what are the and entries in the most voted answer? I see it when I do a dir command but it isn't visible to the user in th
- What directory is ~ when I type cd - Stack Overflow
Your profile chain can quite easily change your current working directory before the prompt appears A more reliable way is " ( cd ; pwd )" to, in a subshell, change to your home directory then print out the working directory
- 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
- linux - What is ~ directory? - Super User
Maybe not programming related, but I want to reference this directory in c program If you try to opendir the string literal "~ " in C, you'll find it doesn't exist It is a Bash Csh shorthand notation that is expanded by the shell to the home directory It does not exist as such on the filesystem and so a C program will fail- unless it invokes Bash, for example, and allows Bash to expand the
- Download a single folder or directory from a GitHub repository
How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repository hosted on GitHub? Say the example GitHub repository lives here: git@github com:foobar Test git Its directory str
- What is the difference between a directory and a folder?
The term directory refers to the way a structured list of document files and folders is stored on the computer It is comparable to a telephone directory that contains lists of names, numbers and addresses and does not contain the actual documents themselves
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