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- 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?
- What characters are forbidden in Windows and Linux directory names . . .
I know that is illegal in Linux, and * quot; \\ lt; gt; : | ? are illegal in Windows What else am I missing? I need a comprehensive guide that also accounts for double-byte characters
- 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 get the full path of the current files directory?
Path() is the current working directory, not the directory of the script This only "works" in the few cases where the script actually is in the current working directory
- Do the parent directorys permissions matter when accessing a . . .
The precise rule is: you can traverse a directory if and only if you have execute permission on it So for example to access dir subdir file, you need execute permission on dir and dir subdir, plus the permissions on file for the type of access you want Getting into corner cases, I'm not sure whether it's universal that you need execute permission on the current directory to access a file
- 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
- Create directory if it does not exist - Stack Overflow
New-Item with -ItemType Directory will also create all folders even if they don't exist
- Zip all files in directory? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
Is there a way to zip all files in a given directory with the zip command? I've heard of using * *, but I want it to work for extensionless files, too
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