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- 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?
- What characters are forbidden in Windows and Linux directory names . . .
I know that is illegal in Linux, and * quot; \\ lt; gt; : | ? are illegal in Windows What else am I missing? I need a comprehensive guide that also accounts for double-byte characters
- 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
- Zip all files in directory? - Unix Linux Stack Exchange
Is there a way to zip all files in a given directory with the zip command? I've heard of using * *, but I want it to work for extensionless files, too
- 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
- List all files and directories in a directory + subdirectories
I want to list every file and directory contained in a directory and subdirectories of that directory If I chose C:\\ as the directory, the program would get every name of every file and folder on
- 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
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