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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
- 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
- Command to list all files in a folder as well as sub-folders in windows
I tried searching for a command that could list all the file in a directory as well as subfolders using a command prompt command I have read the help for "dir" command but coudn't find what I was looking for
- What does , . , . . represent while giving path?
The path meanings: is the root of the current drive; is the current directory; is the parent of the current directory
- What is the difference between path and directory?
A directory is a "folder", a place where you can put files or other directories (and special files, devices, symlinks ) It is a container for filesystem objects A path is a string that specify how to reach a filesystem object (and this object can be a file, a directory, a special file, ) Example: you have (probably, depending on your system) a file where system messages are logged
- Find the current directory and files directory [duplicate]
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?
- How to do a simple file search in cmd - Stack Overflow
List all files in the current directory subdirectories dir b s * txt The above command searches for all txt file in the directory tree But as windows is started naming directories as nuget, vscode it also comes with the command above In order to avoid this and have a clean list use a:-d filter as dir a:-d b s <yourfilename>
- A complete list of %% relative paths variables in Windows Explorer in . . .
Note that if you click on windows > "Modify environment variables for your account", you can find variables with same name that have not the same values has the one produced by this answer
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