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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
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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Listing only directories using ls in Bash? - Stack Overflow
But the spaces in filenames make reading a bit confusing If instead of echo, we use ls The shell is still what is expanding the list of filenames The shell is the reason to get a list of directories in the PWD The -d option to ls makes it list the present directory entry instead of the contents of each directory (as presented by default)
- how to change directory using Windows command line
The "cd" command changes the directory, but not what drive you are working with So when you go "cd d:\temp", you are changing the D drive's directory to temp, but staying in the C drive
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