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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 a single folder or directory from a GitHub repository
How can I download only a specific folder or directory from a remote Git repository hosted on GitHub? Say the example GitHub repository lives here: git@github com:foobar Test git Its directory str
- What does , . , . . represent while giving path?
What does " " , " ", " " represent while giving path?Let's be precise: " "is a path which begins with a , and thus it is an absolute path Thus, we need to begin in the root of the file system and navigate through the folders given by name, whereas the names are separated by s (because this is the unix path separator) Thus, is the root of the file system with no folders entered after
- How do you set PowerShells default directory? - Stack Overflow
Is there a way to change PowerShell's default location? How do you set PowerShell's default working directory?
- Windows shell command to get the full path to the current directory?
Is there a Windows command line command that I can use to get the full path to the current working directory? Also, how can I store this path inside a variable used in a batch file?
- Location of WSL $Home directory (in Windows) - Super User
Then just drill down into your home directory Usually though, in windows, if you open up your file explorer, just scroll down to "Network", from there you can also see your WSL folder
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