Jul 16, 2021 · Check "The folder metaphor" section at Wikipedia. It states: There is a difference between a directory, which is a file system concept, and the graphical user interface metaphor that is used to …

Every directory on a Unix system (and probably every other system too) contains at least two directory entries. These are . (current directory) and .. (parent directory). In the case of the root directory, …

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 ..\..\ …

A word of warning - the highest rated answer might be susceptible to race conditions. You might want to perform os.stat instead, to see if the directory both exists and is a directory at the same moment.

Working directory is the directory with your source files under git control (in the root of all dirs under control .git file is present). Git is tracking the difference between your working directory and local …

In bash all I know is that rmdir directoryname will remove the directory but only if it's empty. Is there a way to force remove subdirectories?

Oct 16, 2010 · bash: ./terragrunt: No such file or directory Problem was that there was two installations of terragrunt, used brew uninstall terragrunt to remove one fixed it.

Jul 9, 2010 · How can I list all files of a directory in Python and add them to a list?

I am running Fedora 17 64-bit and the rsync --exclude=/home/ben/<dir> is not working as expected. I am trying to rsync my home directory to a thumb drive, but I want to exclude certainly

Path() is the current working directory, not the directory of the script. This only "works" in the few cases where the script actually is in the current working directory.