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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
- 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
- How do I check if a directory exists in Python? - Stack Overflow
A word of warning - the highest rated answer might be susceptible to race conditions You might want to perform os stat instead, to see if the directory both exists and is a directory at the same moment
- How do I remove a directory and all its contents?
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?
- 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
- git - Whats the difference between working directory and local . . .
Working directory is the directory with your source files under git control (in the root of all dirs under control git file is present) Git is tracking the difference between your working directory and local repository, and between your local repository and (one of) remote repositories To see what was changed, use $ git status To commit your changes (edits and or new files) to the local
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