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- What is the difference between a directory and a folder?
A directory is the virtual equivalent of a physical file cabinet In other words, it’s a container for organizing digital data Unlike a folder, which can only store files, a directory can store files, subdirectories, and other directories Folder Like a directory, a folder is a container for organizing digital data
- 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
- directory - What are . and . . directories? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
When a directory B is created in Unix, it is added as a new entry to another directory A (its parent directory), and in B, two entries are added: one called as a hard link to itself, and one called as a hard link to A Those are the only hard links to directories allowed (though some older versions of some Unices did also allow arbitrary
- Find the current directory and files directory [duplicate]
For question 1, use os getcwd() # Get working directory and os chdir(r'D:\Steam\steamapps\common') # Set working directory I recommend using sys argv[0] for question 2 because sys argv is immutable and therefore always returns the current file (module object path) and not affected by os chdir()
- What does , . , . . represent while giving path?
Thus, we need to start with the current working directory and apply the navigation operations which are separated by the path separator again In this case, the operation is " ", which means: stay in the current folder (Thus, one has to type foo in order to execute foo in the current directory, if is not in the path-variable)
- Command to list all files in a folder as well as sub-folders in windows
This outputs the path + filename not just the filename This doesn't work When recursive s is added, DIR will always output the full paths in outputs So a FOR script would likely be needed to recursively find all filenames inside a directory tree and output them in alphabetical order in a text file –
- How can I get the real path of Desktop in Windows Explorer?
This has bothered me for ages, and I could not find the solution yet Open Windows Explorer Click on Desktop in the left sidebar Click on quot;Desktop quot; in the address bar Result: Instead
- 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
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