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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)
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- What does , . , . . represent while giving path?
What does " " , " ", " " represent while giving path? makes it clear that the path is explicitly relative to the current directory This can be useful in larger projects where it’s helpful to differentiate between relative and absolute paths Some web servers or frameworks might expect paths without the prefix when interpreting URLs, so it can be more compatible in certain
- 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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