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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When you open a file with the name address.csv, you are telling the open() function that your file is in the current working directory. This is called a relative path.
I want to copy the entire contents of a directory from one location to another in C#. There doesn't appear to be a way to do this using System.IO classes without lots of recursion. There is a met...
I am trying to add C:\\xampp\\php to my system PATH environment variable in Windows. I have already added it using the Environment Variables dialog box. But when I type into my console: path it does...
1199 Create an empty file called .gitkeep in the directory, and git add it. This will be a hidden file on Unix-like systems by default but it will force Git to acknowledge the existence of the directory since it now has content. Also note that there is nothing special about this file's name. You could have named it anything you wanted.
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.
How do I get the path of the directory in which a Bash script is located, inside that script? I want to use a Bash script as a launcher for another application. I want to change the working directo...
