Hi
I have this . folder under tmp
1/ How they can make it this folder?
2/ How can I remove it?
Thank you
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adrian kok wrote:
Hi
I have this . folder under tmp
1/ How they can make it this folder?
Please provide the output of ls -la /tmp
Are you referring to ./ or actually something like \\./ ?
2/ How can I remove it?
If it is really ./ then you dont as this is /tmp
If it is \\./ then rm
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> Hi
>
> I have
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> adrian kok
adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have this . folder under tmp
>
> 1/ How they can make it this folder?
>
> 2/ How can I remove it?
>
first you gotta figure out its -real- name. most likely, its " ." or
". " but the space could also be an unprintable character.
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adrian kok wrote:
>>
I have this . folder under tmp
<<
It's called a directory, not a "folder" and there's one in every directory.
It's a hard link to the current directory, just like ".." is a hard link to
the directory above.
>>
1/ How they can make it this folder?
<<
Create any directory,
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adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have this . folder under tmp
>
> 1/ How they can make it this folder?
>
> 2/ How can I remove it?
Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this, but it
made my day. :)
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On 12/29/09 1:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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> adrian kok wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have this . folder under tmp
>>
>> 1/ How they can make it this folder?
>>
>> 2/ How can I remove it?
>
> Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this
On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have this . folder under tmp
It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that.
Ugo
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> adrian kok wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have this . folder under tmp
>>
>> 1/ How they can make it this folder?
>>
>> 2/ How can I remove it?
>
> Thanks, I just about spit my coffee out my nose when I read this, but it
> made my day. :)
>
Don't do that
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have this . folder under tmp
>
> It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch that.
>
Thank heavens there's one sane person reading today. Obviously no-one
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have this . folder under tmp
> >
> > It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don't touch
> > that.
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>>> On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
Hi
I have this . folder under tmp
>>> It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don
Timo Schoeler wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have this . folder under tmp
It is a system-generated link
Bob McConnell wrote:
> Timo Schoeler wrote:
>> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have this . folder under tmp
>
On 28/12/09 23:49, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have this . folder under tmp
>
> 1/ How they can make it this folder?
>
> 2/ How can I remove it?
>
> Thank you
>
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> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 14:46:23 Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 13:59:43 Ugo Bellavance wrote:
On 2009-12-28 18:49, adrian kok wrote:
>
> I have this . folder under tmp
It is a system-generated link to the current directory. Don
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not Linux-only.
> The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a distinctly Unix
practice. It leads to some funny behavior too, especially when
com
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:21:01AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
> for instance, say /home/pierce is a symlink to /home2/pierce and I'm
> in /home and go cd pierce, then go cd .. in *some* unix systems,
> that cd .. takes me back to home, in others takes me to /home2
It's actually shell de
John R Pierce wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>
>> You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
>> Linux-only.
>> The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
>>
>
> having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a distinctly Unix
> practice. It leads t
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:21:01 John R Pierce wrote:
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
> > Linux-only. The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
>
> having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a distinctly Unix
> pr
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:21:01 John R Pierce wrote:
>> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
>>> Linux-only. The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
>> having an actual . and .. file in a directory i
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 04:06:09PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:
> MS-DOS 2.0 added subdirectories, I/O redirection, pipes, filters and a
Ah, pipes... yeah, that was a fun implementation. Because DOS was single
tasking the pipe actually wrote the data out to a temporary file, then
when the generat
On 12/29/2009 11:49 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
> John R Pierce wrote:
>> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>
>>> You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
>>> Linux-only.
>>> The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
>>
>> having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a
> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> On Tuesday 29 December 2009 18:21:01 John R Pierce wrote:
>>> Marko Vojinovic wrote:
You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
Linux-only. The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
>>> having an actual . and .. file in a dire
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