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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
- 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?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
- 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
- Command prompt wont change directory to another drive
10 If you want to change from current working directory to another directory then in the command prompt you need to type the name of the drive you need to change to, followed by : symbol example: assume that you want to change to D-drive and you are in C-drive currently, then type D: and hit Enter
- 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
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