You Asked: What Does Double Dot Mean in Linux?
Contents on Unix-Like Operating Systems Every Directory Contains, as a Minimum, an Object Represented by a Single Dot and Another Represented by Two Successive...
On Unix-like operating systems every directory contains, as a minimum, an object represented by a single dot and another represented by two successive dots. The former refers to the directory itself and the latter refers to its parent directory (i.e., the directory that contains it).
What does two dots mean in Linux?
Two dots, one after the other, in the same context (i.e., when your instruction is expecting a directory path) means “the directory immediately above the current one“.
What is the use of double dot in Unix?
1. In Linux and Unix, when viewing a directory listing, the “..” or “../” represents the parent directory and “./” is the current directory. Below is an example of the output from the ls command.
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