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 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
