On 03/27/2017 06:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
Please avoid trying to briefly explain. Please refer me to a good web page. I *KNOW* I'm missing something fundamental. ...
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:25:30PM +1100, David wrote:
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix1.html http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix2.html Sections 1.4, 1.6 part 2, and 2.1 demonstrate use of '.' and '~' to represent directory names. To the best of my knowledge, '.' is intrinsic to the filesystem
On 03/27/2017 07:47 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Yes and no (see below) [massive snip] Of course, if you start your path with /, it's an absolute path, like /usr/local/bin/foo/command.
That was the key. *BUT* it went unrecognized until crashed full tilt into another problem. My subject line SHOULD HAVE BEEN: " When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/ and /" Particular examples would be the difference among "ls ./" and "ls ~/" *AND* "ls /". richard@march-9-Jessie:~$ cd testfolder richard@march-9-Jessie:~/testfolder$ richard@march-9-Jessie:~/testfolder$ ls ~/ Documents metime Public Videos Downloads Music t1 wordpress_install apr-3A new file Templates richard@march-9-Jessie:~/testfolder$ ls ./ test-script-0 test-script-1 richard@march-9-Jessie:~/testfolder$ ls / bin dev home lib media boot etc initrd.img richard@march-9-Jessie:~/testfolder$