Re: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread Rob Coops
On a unix/linux file system you see the following: $ ls -la total 244 drwx--9 rcoops ddao24096 Feb 13 09:40 . drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Feb 11 13:23 .. -rw---1 rcoops ddao2 158310 Feb 13 09:40 .bash_history -rw-r--r--1 rcoops ddao2

Re: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread Kashif Salman
On Feb 13, 2008 8:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been going over some listings and I found code like the following: ./directory/file.txt and ../directory/file.txt but I've never seen the ./ and ../ things at the beginning of the path. I've tried to google these but had no

Re: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread Michael Barnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] told me on 02/13/2008 10:34 AM: I've been going over some listings and I found code like the following: ./directory/file.txt and ../directory/file.txt but I've never seen the ./ and ../ things at the beginning of the path. I've tried to google these

Re: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread MK
On 02/13/2008 11:34:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I've been going over some listings and I found code - - like the following: - - - - ./directory/file.txt and - - ../directory/file.txt this is not really a perl question, but since perl does respect the reference: . and .. are relative

Re: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread David Moreno
On Feb 13, 2008 12:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you to all who replied to this requestnow I understand! I appreciate the help and the courtesy of the replies! Once againThank You!! One more satisfied customer -said somewhere sometime by merlyn. -- David Moreno -

RE: Newbie File Question....

2008-02-13 Thread Richard.Copits
Thank you to all who replied to this requestnow I understand! I appreciate the help and the courtesy of the replies! Once againThank You!! -Original Message- From: Copits Dick Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:35 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Newbie File Question