29 Dec
2009
29 Dec
'09
6:21 p.m.
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not Linux-only. The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a distinctly Unix practice. It leads to some funny behavior too, especially when combined with symlinks
for instance, say /home/pierce is a symlink to /home2/pierce and I'm in /home and go cd pierce, then go cd .. in *some* unix systems, that cd .. takes me back to home, in others takes me to /home2