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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?
- 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
- 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
- linux - What is ~ directory? - Super User
If you try to opendir the string literal "~ " in C, you'll find it doesn't exist It is a Bash Csh shorthand notation that is expanded by the shell to the home directory It does not exist as such on the filesystem and so a C program will fail- unless it invokes Bash, for example, and allows Bash to expand the string
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