28 Oct
2019
28 Oct
'19
11:36 p.m.
Bakul Shah <bakul(a)bitblocks.com> once said:
"Getting Less Than Right" would have been an
interesting title. ;)
Unix uses dot for the current directory. Was
there any notation for this in Multics?
Anthony
dir1>dir2>file1 -- absolute: /dir1/di2/file1
file1 -- relative: if
>dir1>dir2 is the working dir
<file2 -- relative: ../file2 == >dir1>file2
<dir3>file4 -- ../dir3/file3
<<dir4>file5 -- ../../dir4/file5 == >dir4>file5
<< is more compact thant ../.. and I like the vertical symmetry of < and >!