i don't suppose this belongs to ph-misc (chit-chat) as this is very much
*nix related. so here goes:
if within "/home/<user>" you do a "ls -al" you would see something
like this:
drwxr-sr-x 10 rino rino 4096 Sep 20 18:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 34 Sep 20 09:39 ..
-rw------- 1 rino rino 954 Sep 20 18:07 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 rino rino 174 Sep 19 16:08 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 rino rino 370 Sep 20 00:38 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 rino rino 537 Sep 20 11:46 .bashrc
the ".." there means "/home" or the parent directory of
"/home/<user>". now if you do the same from "/" you'd get:
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Sep 20 09:45 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Sep 20 09:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 20 09:22 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Sep 20 09:50 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Jul 6 2000 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 24576 Sep 20 17:44 dev
we all know that the "/" is the root or parent directory of all
directories then what does that ".." mean there?
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