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Whenever we use the command:
dir --> in Windows
and
dir -a --> in Unix
We see 2 kinds of dots:
.
..
Appear in the directories.
Now in APUE by Stephens Rago, it says these are filenames and some books say these are directories.
What are these Dots about anyway?
Please provide an answer w.r.t. Windows as well as Unix if possible.
It’s the same for both platforms (and web based programming)
.represents the directory you are in and..represents the parent directory.In HTML if you have a file e.g.: http://example.com/blog/index.html and you want to link to the image http://example.com/images/image.jpg you would put it in as such:
As that tells the script to look in the PARENT directory and then
images/image.jpg.