On 3:27pm, Shrinivasan T wrote:

>  . is CWD and .. is previous directory.
> Why are they mentioned in ls?

In Unix world, every thing is a FILE. The reference to current and 
parent directory need to be maintained. So both are exits and 
displayed in the ls output.

> why ... and .... are not there? any specific reason?

If you need like this, then there is no limit :) But you have an 
alternate option like ../../../

Bye :)
-- 
Bharathi S

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