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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
- 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
- Find the current directory and files directory [duplicate]
How do I determine: the current directory (where I was in the shell when I ran the Python script), and where the Python file I am executing is?
- What is the difference between path and directory?
A directory is a "folder", a place where you can put files or other directories (and special files, devices, symlinks ) It is a container for filesystem objects A path is a string that specify how to reach a filesystem object (and this object can be a file, a directory, a special file, ) Example: you have (probably, depending on your system) a file where system messages are logged
- How to create a git patch from the uncommitted changes in the current . . .
Say I have uncommitted changes in my working directory How can I make a patch from those without having to create a commit?
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