Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Mike A. Harris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp 1/ How they can make it this folder? 2/ How can I remove it? Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this, but it made my day. :) - -- Mike A. Harris

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Eero Volotinen
On 12/29/09 1:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp 1/ How they can make it this folder? 2/ How can I remove it? Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this, but it made my

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that. Ugo ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread m . roth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp 1/ How they can make it this folder? 2/ How can I remove it? Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this, but it made my day. :) Don't do that - you'll wind up

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that. Thank heavens there's one sane person reading today. Obviously no-one else

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that. Thank heavens

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that.

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Bob McConnell
Timo Schoeler wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory.

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
Bob McConnell wrote: Timo Schoeler wrote: Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Jake Shipton
On 28/12/09 23:49, adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp 1/ How they can make it this folder? 2/ How can I remove it? Thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread m . roth
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote: On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote: I have this . folder under tmp It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that. Thank

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread John R Pierce
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

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:21:01AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: 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 It's actually shell

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
John R Pierce wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:21:01 John R Pierce wrote: 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.

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Bob McConnell
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:21:01 John R Pierce wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:06:09PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: MS-DOS 2.0 added subdirectories, I/O redirection, pipes, filters and a Ah, pipes... yeah, that was a fun implementation. Because DOS was single tasking the pipe actually wrote the data out to a temporary file, then when the

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Warren Young
On 12/29/2009 11:49 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: John R Pierce wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread m . roth
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:21:01 John R Pierce wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-28 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of adrian kok Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 18:50 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory Hi I have this . folder under tmp 1/ How they can make

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-28 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Larry Brower Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 18:58 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-28 Thread John R Pierce
adrian kok wrote: Hi I have this . folder under tmp 1/ How they can make it this folder? 2/ How can I remove it? first you gotta figure out its -real- name. most likely, its . or .but the space could also be an unprintable character.

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-28 Thread Les Bell
adrian kok adriankok2...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: I have this . folder under tmp It's called a directory, not a folder and there's one in every directory. It's a hard link to the current directory, just like .. is a hard link to the directory above. 1/ How they can make it this folder? Create