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What does . (dot) mean as the destination of the cp command?
For example:
cp ~dir1/dir2/dir3/executableFile.x .
When this executes it copies the file successfully with the correct file name, but I’m wondering is this what a destination of ‘.’ will always do or is there another purpose?
Within the reference material I’ve seen, dots are used in front of files to indicate ‘hidden’, but in that has no relation to the command above.
dot represents the current directory
while dotdot is the parent directory.