Re: purpose of "." entry in a diretory

[Manu Jose <talktomatrix@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jason,
               "." represents the current working directory and ".."
represents the parent directory of the current working directory . It
is useful in various contexts. For example if u r currently in the
directory /mnt/foo and want to copy the content of /mnt/foo1 to
/mnt/foo just isuue the command " cp -R /mnt/foo1/* . "  .So it is
always good to represent the working directory with a short symbol and
it is not at all a waste....

Manu

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