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What are "." and ".." in a directory?

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Mar 15, 202672711 views
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Based on the question: How to make using command prompt less painful, what are the and entries in the most voted answer? I see it when I do a command but it isn't visible to the user in the form of a file. In case you dont know what I mean here's an example:

Error Output

.
..
Su.exe
Sup.txt
SuperUser.COM

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The . is the current directory, while .. signifies the parent directory. It makes things quicker at the command line as well so you don't need to type out full paths. example: go up 2 directories: or on a UNIX based system, to run executable binarie…

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