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ragzputin
ragzputin

Reputation: 397

What does "/.." mean within a path name?

I'm learning Django at the moment, using a Mac with Mountain Lion. There's an absolute path like this:

/Users/raghavkumar/Documents/Python_docs/rango/tango_with_django_project/tango_with_django_project/..

Now what does the /.. at the very end signify?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 56

Answers (1)

Jonathan Leffler
Jonathan Leffler

Reputation: 753455

It means the parent directory of the second tango_with_django_project directory, which is

/Users/raghavkumar/Documents/Python_docs/rango/tango_with_django_project

There are two entries in every directory:

.
..

These are the current directory and the parent directory.

Note that symlinks can confuse things; see the cd command and the -P and -L options for some instances of how they can cause trouble.

Upvotes: 4

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