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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: meaning of "Bad partial reference; stripping leading
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: meaning of "Bad partial reference; stripping leading dots"? |
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Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:38:04 -0700 (PDT) |
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, pAb-032871 wrote:
>On many FTP servers, you may notice two "directories" [I think
They _are_ directories.
>that's what they are] in every listing, named "." and ".." Entering
>"." puts you in the current directory [possibly a refreshed listing?],
>and ".." moves you up one directory. The system might put these
>here automatically for some reason, I don't know much about it.
They are simply directory entries. ".." refers up one, and "." is the
current directory.. (Hmm, I was thinking that ".." may be a soft link
to the upper directory, but I guess not.. I was thinking it was then
maybe a hard link...
/tmp % mkdir blah
/tmp % cd blah
/tmp/blah % rm ..
rm of .. is not allowed
/tmp/blah % rm -r ..
rm of .. is not allowed
(Laugh In voice:) Verrry interrrrrresting..
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Re: lynx-dev LYNX: meaning of "Bad partial reference; stripping leading dots"?, David Woolley, 2000/07/27