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 ...
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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 ...
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In bash all I know is that rmdir directoryname will remove the directory but only if it's empty. Is there a way to force remove subdirectories?
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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.
How can I grant permissions to a user on a directory (Read, Write, Modify) using the Windows command line?
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I tried to obtain the size of a directory (containing directories and sub directories) by using the ls command with option l. It seems to work for files (ls -l file name), but if I try to get the s...
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If the current directory on running the command line is a subdirectory of a shared local folder accessed using UNC path, i.e. C:\Temp\CleanTest\Subfolder1, Subfolder1 is deleted by RD, and next POPD fails silently in making C:\Temp\CleanTest\Subfolder1 again the current directory resulting in Z:\CleanTest remaining as the current directory for ...
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To add a directory to PATH using PowerShell, do the following: ... To set the variable for all users, machine-wide, the last line should be like: ... In a PowerShell script, you might want to check for the presence of your C:\xampp\php before adding to PATH (in case it has been previously added). You can wrap it in an if conditional.
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?
~ expands to your home directory, as has been pointed out, but I think it's worth noting that isn't a feature of ssh itself. ssh (among many other wonderful features!) lets you establish a remote shell, and this shell can provided by many different pieces of software. On a *nix system, your account will be associated with a particular shell, GNU bash is a popular choice. And it so happens than ...
The path meanings: / is the root of the current drive; ./ is the current directory; ../ is the parent of the current directory.
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After setting up on the river this morning and not having any luck on honkers we hit a field tonight to see if our luck would change. As luck would have it it did. 2 guys 4 shots 4 birds. Love it when they are back winging in the spread. Nice sunset as we were picking up decoys.
I do my best typically right before or right after sunset with crankbaits. If I'm fishing mid day I look for either a deep hole, or brush piles to provide some shade.
Eventually he stood up, and held the blanket up so his girl friend could get dressed. They hopped in the canoe and flipped us the bird. It was about an hour till sunset when they took off, and Nick snagged the stick, and fish were gone. When we got back to the ramp, we were the only truck left.
Hopefully there's more flying close to sunset, but I'm worried. A field that had probably 100 geese in it with plenty more in the area on Wednesday was a ghost field last night; didn't see a single feather.
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