What Is Dot Directory in Linux?
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. ( dot) means the current directory you’re in. .. (dot dot) means the parent directory of the current directory you’re in. For example, if you’re in foo/bar/ , . will represent bar/ , .. will represent foo/ .

What is the dot dot directory?

.. (dot dot) This refers to the parent directory of your working directory, immediately above your working directory in the file system structure. If one of these is used as the first element in a relative path name, it refers to your working directory.

What is a dot used for in Linux?

The dot command ( . ), aka full stop or period, is a command used to evaluate commands in the current execution context.

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