On 02/13/2008 11:34:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-> I've been going over some listings and I found code
->
-> like the following:
->
->
->
-> "./directory/file.txt" and
->
-> "../directory/file.txt"
this is not really a perl question, but since perl does respect the
reference:
"." and ".." are relative directories. They ALSO have a real
(absolute) name.
"." refers to the directory in question, eg. your present working
directory (pwd). So if you cd to /home/mine, "." now refers to
/home/mine (that's the real name).
".." refers to the directory above "." in a hierarchy. In /home/mine
".." would refer to /home.
You really need to find a simple explanation of the unix filesystem, of
which i am sure there are many on the web; otherwise you are going to
have have more problems. Also try:
www.ss64.com/bash/
which explains shell commands like ls and cd, since those commands do
not have their own manual pages.
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