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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
- Download using wget to a different directory than current directory
The directory prefix is the directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved to, i e the top of the retrieval tree The default is ‘ ’ (the current directory)
- 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?
- How do I list all files of a directory? - Stack Overflow
How can I list all files of a directory in Python and add them to a list?
- 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
- Command prompt wont change directory to another drive
10 If you want to change from current working directory to another directory then in the command prompt you need to type the name of the drive you need to change to, followed by : symbol example: assume that you want to change to D-drive and you are in C-drive currently, then type D: and hit Enter
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