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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
- 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
- What does , . , . . represent while giving path?
What does " " , " ", " " represent while giving path?Let's be precise: " "is a path which begins with a , and thus it is an absolute path Thus, we need to begin in the root of the file system and navigate through the folders given by name, whereas the names are separated by s (because this is the unix path separator) Thus, is the root of the file system with no folders entered after
- Change IPython Jupyter notebook working directory
Start in: C:\fake\example\directory\ (Note the added slash at the end of "start in") This runs windows command line, changes to your working directory, and runs the ipython notebook pointed at that directory Drop one of these in each project folder and you'll have ipython notebook groups kept nice and separate while still just a doubleclick away
- How do I check if a directory exists in Python? - Stack Overflow
A word of warning - the highest rated answer might be susceptible to race conditions You might want to perform os stat instead, to see if the directory both exists and is a directory at the same moment
- directory - How can I Git ignore subfolders subdirectories? - Stack . . .
145 All the previous answers are valid, but something that I don't think is mentioned is that once you add a file from that directory into the repository, you can't ignore that directory subdirectory that contains that file (git will ignore that directive) To ignore already added files run git rm -r --cached
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