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- windows - What are . and . . in a directory? - Super User
The is the current directory You rarely need to use this; most commands will assume the current directory The is the next level up; this is a rather useful shortcut If you are in C:\foo\bar and you want to go to C:\foo\bar2 you can say cd \bar2 and you will be in C:\foo\bar2
- How to go to the previous working directory in terminal?
fzf helps me sift through my directory history as dirs helps me list the directories on the directory stack I define the following alias called ch as follows: alias ch="cd \$(dirs -pl | fzf)" Now, if you type ch in the terminal you will see the following, and you can select the directory you want to move into
- How do I remove a directory and all its contents?
Suppose you are writing a script to run on a remote computer That script has a command which is supposed to remove a directory Here, it would be "safer" to use rm -rf directoryname coz you wouldn't want your script to pause execution, because it's waiting for user input Of course, you have to be sure that deleting the directory would do no harm
- active directory - How do I find out containing OU in results of “Find . . .
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- How to copy all files from a directory to a remote directory using scp . . .
@RichardKiefer: My apologies Richard, to get all the files copied we can use a small bash script Use: ls -l | awk '{print $9}' and redirect all the output (which would be all the file names) to a txt file
- How can I get the current working directory? [duplicate]
The value of the current working directory can be different If you used symbolic links to get the the current directory, pwd will give different results than usr bin pwd Since you are using bash, I would use: dir=$( usr bin pwd) or as per comment: dir=$(pwd -P) as I don't like back quotes since they can't nest
- How to rename the User folder in Windows 10? - Super User
While not a direct answer to the question, a symbolic link can be a risk-free solution if the problem is not just aesthetics, but that restored or legacy configuration files or links refer to the user directory Open an elevated command prompt; Change to the user directory; Create a directory junction targeting the real name of the user
- environment variables - What is $PWD? (vs current working directory . . .
print the physical directory, without any symbolic links By default, ‘pwd’ behaves as if ‘-L’ were specified The pwd binary, on the other hand, gets the current directory through the getcwd(3) system call which returns the same value as readlink -f proc self cwd To illustrate, try moving into a directory that is a link to another one:
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