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