29 Dec
2009
29 Dec
'09
4:52 p.m.
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
Hi
I have this . folder under tmp
It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that.
Thank heavens there's one sane person reading today. Obviously no-one else here was ever new to Linux.
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. And they still exist, actually. The problem is that today people working under Windows [7|Vista|XP] never get to open a terminal anymore, and various GUI's play smart with them and don't show the links to current and parent directories.
Best, :-) Marko