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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
- 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?
- Download using wget to a different directory than current directory
The directory prefix is the directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved to, i e the top of the retrieval tree The default is ‘ ’ (the current directory)
- No such file or directory but it exists - Stack Overflow
bash: terragrunt: No such file or directory Problem was that there was two installations of terragrunt, used brew uninstall terragrunt to remove one fixed it
- 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
- How do I list all files of a directory? - Stack Overflow
How can I list all files of a directory in Python and add them to a list?
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