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Bookmark or Share- archive - How do I tar a directory of files and folders without ...The -C my_directory tells tar to change the current directory to my_directory, and then . means "add the entire current directory" (including hidden files and sub-directories). Make sure you do -C my_directory before you do . or else you'll get the files in the current directory. Warning: you'll get entries as ./file-name.ext instead of file ...
- What is the difference between path and directory?Paths can be relative, too. So if your current directory is /home/user, the path ../../var/log/syslog is a relative path to the same file, too (you know it's relative because it doesn't start with /). And in your home directory, if you create a symlink to /var/log like this: ln -s /var/log myvarlog then myvarlog/syslog is another path to our file.
- directory - What are ./ and ../ directories? - Unix & Linux Stack ExchangeWhen a directory B is created in Unix, it is added as a new entry to another directory A (its parent directory), and in B, two entries are added: one called . as a hard link to itself, and one called .. as a hard link to A. Those are the only hard links to directories allowed (though some older versions of some Unices did also allow arbitrary ...
- windows - What are "." and ".." in a directory? - Super User46. The . is the current directory, while .. signifies the parent directory. It makes things quicker at the command line as well so you don't need to type out full paths. example: go up 2 directories: cd ..\..\. or on a UNIX based system, to run executable binaries in the current directory: ./program.
- What is the difference between a directory and a folder?Directory is a classical term used since the early times of file systems while folder is a sort of friendly name which may sound more familiar to Windows users. The main difference is that a folder is a logical concept that does not necessarily map to a physical directory. A directory is an file system object. A folder is a GUI object.
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