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Laurent Schneider

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Tag: physical

on logical and physical working directories

many ignore the difference meaning of .. (dot dot) as an argument when used with ls or cd this leads to buggy coding and wrong parsing of arguments in scripts let’s start with an example $ mkdir $HOME/test $HOME/test/physical $HOME/test/foo $ cd $HOME/test/foo $ ln -s ../physical logical $ cd logical $ ls -l ..… Continue reading on logical and physical working directories

Published May 21, 2019
Categorized as unix Tagged logical, physical
Laurent Schneider
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